On 26/04/2006 Henrik Holst wrote: > Jonas Meurer wrote: > > update the keyfiles to point their real location (in your example above > > this seems to be /media/hdd1, not /media/STICK. > > apart from that, it looks good. > > > > /media/STICK might be the perfect position to mount. We cannot reference > files inside block devices that are not logically mounted somwhere, can > we? :-) Especially in UDEV context /media/STICK can be a very good mount > point combined with something in the lines i describe below. i'm not sure whether i got your point. in general, the name of the mountpoint for a usbstick is the decision of a local user/admin. /media/STICK might be a better choice, but from a technical point of view, you can name your mountpoint /media/hdd1 too, even it's an usbstick with a device like /dev/sda1. the mountpoint should be mounted anyway. that's what the thread is about. to mount a removable device, read a keyfile from it, and use this keyfile with cryptsetup. what i wanted to say, is that the original poster has given contradictory lines. in /etc/init.d/cryptdisks, he added lines to mount and read keyfiles from /media/STICK, in /etc/crypttab he refered to keyfiles on /media/hdd1. this inconsistence might be the reason for some of the problems he described. greetings jonas --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
