Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Jochen Hayek wrote:
> >>>>> Ludwig Nussel writes:
> 
>     LN> Jochen Hayek wrote:
> 
>     >> I prepare my /etc/crypttab and my /etc/fstab for quite a few different external encrypted disks.
>     >> And I don't attach them all at the same time, esp. not at boot time.
> 
>     >> /etc/init.d/boot.crypto shouldn't bother attempting to mount disks,
>     >> that are not currently attached.
>     >> [...]
> 
>     LN> Most current boot.crypto from factory already skips devices that don't exist.
> 
> I had installed (upgraded) SUSE Linux 10.3 from CD-ROMs,
> then I upgraded certain parts from SUSE Factory,
> and ...
> 
>     $ rpm --query -f /etc/init.d/boot.crypto
>     aaa_base-10.1-41
> 
> 
> In aaa_base-10.3-29.i586.rpm (currently on SUSE Factory) :
> 
>     $ rpm2cpio aaa_base-10.3-29.i586.rpm | cpio -tv | fgrep crypt
>     630 blocks
>     -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1232 Apr 27 17:31 ./var/adm/fillup-templates/sysconfig.boot.crypto
> 
> 1st: I find it a little risky to upgrade esp. aaa_base.
> 
> 2nd: I cannot find boot.crypto in that package,
> so I cannot verify, what you're saying,
> and I would at least like to have a look at the new code in boot.crypto.

boot.crypto is now in the util-linux-crypto package as it entirely depends on
cryptsetup. You also need to upgrade the kernel, the 10.2 one does
not support the on disk format you need via dm-crypt.

cu
Ludwig

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