On Mon, July 27, 2015 21:49, Milan Broz wrote: > On 07/27/2015 09:26 PM, ilf wrote: >> Sven Eschenberg: >>> Since you want to use crypttab anyway, is there any particular reason >>> not >>> to use /dev/disk/by-id/<identifier>? >> >> You are comlpetely right, that works and I should probably use that. >> >>> As UUID=<uuid> needs proper symlinks anyway, it is rather a handy >>> shorthand at the commandline. >> >> Well, the man-page for crypttab(5) in Debian and Derivatives sais, "the >> UUID is supported as well, using UUID=<luks_uuid>". So adding an ID= >> option would make this more consistent. > > Actually I added UUID=<..> to cryptsetup to mainly easily implement > scripts doing the similar action as fstab/crypttab UUID= mount. > (fstab allows LABEL and UUID but not ID; also LUKS has no label) > Sorry to correct you here, but fstab supports all libblkid properties, which are amongst UUID and LABEL some more (PARTLABEL and PARTUUID for GPT work quite well ;-) ). And even UUID and LABEL need libblkid support, otherwise they won't work in fstab. > Milan > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > Regards -Sven _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
