[arch-general] Timing issues when decrypting a USB drive during boot (/etc/crypttab)

[Damjan]

> Recently, I tried to automatically unlock an encrypted external USB
> hard drive on Arch Linux. I have done this by inserting an appropriate
> entry into /etc/crypttab. I chose the device to be unlocked by
> cryptsetup with a key file by UUID.

Udisks listens to udev events and sends dbus events, so you can make a 
"daemon" script, similar to that devmon shell that waits for your usb 
drive and then does what it needs to do.


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дамјан