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[Joop Beris <opensuse@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello listmates,

I'm trying to set up a crypt file, using the Yast2 partitioner.
What I want to do is the following:

- Create a crypt file in my home directory
- Make it mountable by my regular user account
- Not mount it automatically at boot
- Preferably make it expand automatically

So I start the Yast2 paritioner, go to Crypt Files and create a crypt file
in my home directory. I set the options in the appropriate steps steps of
the partitioner to make it user mountable and not to mount the crypt file
at system boot. I do not set a size or make a loop file, in the assumption
that this will create an auto-expanding crypt file. I choose a pass phrase
and proceed to commit the changes.

So far so good. The partitioner runs for a while, and then everything is
set.

However, the crypt file is mounted when the partitioner finishes. So, as
root, I unmount the crypt file. Then, I drop root privileges and try to
mount the crypt file as a regular user. To my surprise, I get this:
# mount -t ext3 /media/crypto/
mount: only root can do that

Now this is very odd. I had specified that the crypt file should be user
mountable. So I go back into the partitioner to edit the crypt file
settings. The settings for the crypt file seem empty when I open it. It
says "Do not format the partition" (which is understandable, because it is
already formatted) and it says "Do not mount partition". That is odd, since
I told it to mount at /media/crypto. Never mind, I enter that mount point
again and then click Fstab options. Here, my settings are also missing. I
had set it mountable by user and not to mount at system boot. Both options
are unchecked. I set them again, and click "Finish". It then tells me the
mount is already in use, which would be correct, since I already created
the fstab entry in the initial setup. The fstab line reads as follows:

/home/<user>/Crypto   /media/crypto        crypt     
loop,user,noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0

That looks okay to me.

Since the crypt file isn't working, I decide to delete it again. So in the
partitioner, I select the crypt file and click the delete button. Nothing
happens. The crypt file is still there, and also the entries in /etc/fstab
and /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/mapper remain.

So, am I doing something wrong, or is the Yast2 partitioner broken?

Regards,

Joop

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