On 29/04/2007 Simon Morgan wrote: > I am trying to get encrypted swap working. Can somebody please tell me > why I get "Warning: exhausting read requested, but key file is not a > regular file, function might never return." even though I created a > non-LUKS partition and specified a key size? > > I do the following: > > cryptsetup -c aes -s 256 -d /dev/urandom create swap /dev/hda2 > > which works fine. Then I do: > > mkswap /dev/mapper/swap > swapon /dev/mapper/swap > > which also works fine. I add the following to /etc/crypttab: > > swap /dev/hda2 /dev/urandom -c aes -s 256 I don't know which distribution you're using, but if it's debian or ubuntu, you should change the crypttab to: swap /dev/hda2 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes,size=256 > mkswap /dev/mapper/swap this one is done by /etc/init.d/cryptdisks if you add the "swap" option to /etc/crypttab. ... jonas --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
