On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com>> wrote:On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com> <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com>__>> wrote: Hi All, Xfce 4.8 Scientific Linux 6.2, 64 bit I have just encrypted my backup drive. Is there anyway to get it into my fstab? Problem is rebooting removed the label I created in /dev/mapper with # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak and in fstab, I can add: /dev/mapper/lin-bak /lin-bak ext4 defaults 1 0 But "/dev/mapper/lin-bak" vanishes on me after a reboot. I can double click on the icon on my desktop and it will mount in "/media/lin-bak". But this plays havoc on my scripts. Gives me a long funny name in /dev/mapper too, which disappears when you dismount. Be nice to be able to get the drive into my fstab. If not, how do I mount it from the command line? If I try to mount directly, I get # mount /dev/sdb1 /lin-bak mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' Perplexed, -T On 07/28/2012 07:31 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:> You need to map it in the file /etc/crypttab. > > You want to configure your /etc/crypttab file to look like this: > lin-bak /dev/sdb1 > Ah ha! Thank you! In /etc/crypttab, how do you handle passwords with spaces in them? I think it gags on quote marks. -T
On 07/28/2012 09:46 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:> I haven't tested it with password that contains space. Try escape with
> back slash key( \ ). > > > Hi Tam, With both quotes and backslashes, I get "key file missing". So I switched to a keyfile. Now I get: special device /dev/mapper/lin-bak does not exist. I can create /dev/mapper/lin-bak with cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak but /dev/mapper/lin-bak disappears after I reboot. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? -T
