On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:15:15 +0000 (UTC) "Matej Cepl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Lunz scripst: > > Yes, it works just fine. I've been running a laptop with dm-crypt on > > swap and root for months now - only /boot is unencrypted. > > That's cool -- more I am thinking about that more I don't understand how > is something like that possible. Suspend writes to (then encrypted with > /dev/urandom key) image of the frozen memory, so how can resume decrypt Random key? > it? Or do you have to in the moment swap is not used for swapping anymore, > remove it and replace it with unencrypted swap (or encrypted only with > suspend's own resources)? You have to supply the key which is used for encrypting at the moment you setup the encrypted partitions. swap is not different than /home > > on debian unstable, yaird supports it more or less out of the box. In > > the beginning I had to patch Templates.cfg to add ususpend support, but > > not anymore iirc. I don't know how fedora generates its initrd. > > I am afraid that it is mkinitrd. I really hoped that I will not be forced > to compile my own kernel anymore. Oh well :-(. Note that an initrd/initramfs can be generated apart from compiling the kernel. On debian it is generated at install time, based on how you configured your system, I would guess other distros do the same. grts Tim
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