On 09/14/2012 06:52 PM, Stayvoid wrote: > Arno, > > I'm not sure that I got the idea. How to access encrypted partitions after > booting? And how to unmount / encrypt / temporary disable them? (I hope that > my terminology is clear.) In other words, what's the usage pattern? > Assuming you've run luksFormat on some block device (/dev/sda2), and you're booted into your initrd. # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 root will create a new block device at /dev/mapper/root. So you've used the kernel device mapper to map one block device into another block device. You then proceed with /dev/mapper/root as if it's another other block device. So you (or your distro rather) needs to do something like # mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt # switch_root /mnt /sbin/init The distribution you use will affect exactly how you configure this because it's not standard. (It'd be great if cryptsetup at least provided some sort of reference parser for /etc/crypttab, but they feel it's out of scope, so this standardization is being done by systemd. That said, root [and /usr] is going to be a little different than everything else) _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
