On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:54:54PM +0100, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>
>>> rd.luks.key=<key_path>:<key_dev>:<key_dev_fs>:<luks_dev>
>>>
>>
>> The LABEL and UUID are always stored in filesystem specific
>> superblock (or root directory) on the device. It means that your
>> system has to be able to detect FS type before it's able to read
>> LABEL/UUID from the device. The <key_dev_fs> is unnecessary.
Well, rephrasing: The <key_dev_fs> is unnecessary if you want to use
UUID or LABEL.
> If I have HFS drive (Mac) or even HPFS (OS/2) and have the keys there
> how would I be able to retrieve them then if I do not use labels/UUID -
> by using /dev/sdXX?
HFS, HPFS and NTFS support labels and uuids
> I think specifying the target file system is important because by just
> executing 'mount' without indicating the target file system when I have,
> for example, HFS or HPFS mount just won't happen.
Why? My mount(8) is able to detect HFS or HPFS.
# losetup --show -f /home/images/filesystems/hfs.img
/dev/loop0
# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/test
# grep loop0 /proc/mounts
/dev/loop0 /mnt/test hfs rw,relatime,uid=0,gid=0 0 0
> I am also not certain
> that by just executing 'mount' it would automatically map NTFS either,
> without specifying that the target system is NTFS (the command in
> question for mounting NTFS partitions is ntfs-3g isn't it?).
$ ll /sbin/mount.ntfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 8 10:32 /sbin/mount.ntfs -> mount.ntfs-3g
Karel
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