On 09/14/2012 07:09 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > 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. > Sorry, I meant "any 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
