[arch-general] migrating crypttab to new way / luks swap problem

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:09:37 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 02:00 AM, Aurko Roy wrote:
> >If you do man crypttab, there's an example for swap at the bottom. It is
> >
> >  swap /dev/sda7 /dev/urandom swap
> >
> 
> 
>    Thanks, I am aware of that, but I have luks on my swap partition
> so that won't work. I want to be prompted for a password. luks is
> also required if you want to hibernate - the /dev/urandom way cannot
> be used to hibernate (for obvious reasons).


The "swap" example reinitializes the encrypted block device at boot and
does mkswap on that.  You want neither, just use "luks" as for your other
partition.


	Geert


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