On 03/14/2014 08:00 AM, .. ink .. wrote: > I think somehow,the kpartx step was done here and this is evident by the > existence of /dev/mapper/vault1 & vault2 Hi, No, I didn't run kpartx at this step. I did run "partprobe" after fdisk here in Fedora 20. Maybe one of them creates the partition device files. > I think here,you should have done: > kpartx -d /dev/mapper/vault > cryptsetup luksClose vault There you go. Thanks for this. That worked nicely. I'll add this to my steps. > The "standard way" is to create an LVM volume in the encrypted > container.This is how most distributions implements "full disk > encryption" with LUKS. > > With an LVM volume,you can simulate partitions by creating volume > groups/logical volumes. In my scenario, running btrfs over LVM seems overkill since BTRFS has already built-in volume management. Thanks! Jorge _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt