On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 01:11 +0000, Lurkos wrote: > *Ross Boylan* wrote: > > > What do I need to do? > > Let's assume that /dev/hda5 is the physical partition and > /dev/mapper/hda5_crypt is encrypted partition to be use for swap. > > I will follow these steps: > 1) umount swap with > # swapoff /dev/mapper/hda5_crypt > 2) close partion > # cryptsetup luksClose hda5_crypt > 3) modify /etc/crypttab > hda5_crypt /dev/hda5 /dev/random > cipher=cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=128,swap > (single line!) > 4) modify /etc/fstab > /dev/mapper/hda5_crypt none swap sw 0 0 > 5) reboot Thanks for your reply. Does this mean that swapon at step 5 is a bad idea? Don't I need to regenerate initrd's before booting? -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
