Re: FC9 boot hangs with encrypted filesystems

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>>> I put an encrypted f/s on an FC9 install, and the boot hung waiting
>>> for the password. Not good, so I marked it "noauto" in fstab, but it
>>> still hung. So I put it in automount and not in fstab and it still
>>> hangs, and I finally took it out of everywhere and the boot process
>>> can still see it.
>>>
>>> I want the system to boot without the filesystem, and mount it only on
>>> demand, but by simply existing it seems to be found and validated at
>>> boot time. Can someone tell me where the boot process is finding the
>>> f/s? It's not used for normal operations, only for special operations
>>> by people with the password.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to keep the boot from asking about it until used?
>>
>>  man crypttab
>>
> Thanks, but I don't see quite how to select "on demand" in that man page. If
> I comment out the entry it isn't requested at boot, but it isn't requested
> when I try to mount it, I get a "must specify filesystem type" prompt.

Anybody figure out how to do this yet? I also have an encrypted volume
that I want "on demand" rather than activated at boot. Commenting out
the entry in /etc/crypttab and changing the fstab mount option to
"noauto" doesn't do the trick.

Tim

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