[arch-general] How to encrypt /home, so it gets mounted during boot

C Anthony Risinger anthony at extof.me
Fri Jan 28 17:14:07 EST 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> While /dev/lvm/root gets really mounted, its getting /dev/mapper/lvm-var
> which gets mounted for /var, seems quite odd for me?
>
> Can anyone elaborate on this?

i dont know the exact reason, or where it's happening, but ultimately
everything is just symlinks anyway:

lvm -> /dev/dmX
md -> /dev/mdX
....
....

udev is creating links to the above locations for you.  afaik though,
/dev/mapper is the standard/most regular, so i would stick to that.

C Anthony


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