I've got a LV for 'swap' --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VG03/swap VG Name VG03 LV UUID dyJZld-HpsM-cRih-QyoK-Ti6u-zAe2-7mlWcP LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 508.00 MB Current LE 127 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1 on a raid-1 partition, --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md1 VG Name VG03 PV Size 509.86 MB / not usable 1.86 MB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 127 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 127 PV UUID DGq68J-DiiF-co40-FCei-Try9-iMnF-qkpXhN i'm setting up for Encrypted Swap, swapoff -a dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/VG03/swap cat /etc/crypttab cr_swap /dev/VG03/swap /dev/urandom cipher=twofish-cbc-plain,size=128,hash=sha512,swap grep -i swap /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/cr_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 cryptsetup -d /dev/urandom create cr_swap /dev/VG03/swap mkswap -L SWAP /dev/mapper/cr_swap Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 520188 KiB LABEL=SWAP, UUID=51c783ce-4380-44b9-bc7a-8b2d48c6ccf1 swapon -a swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/mapper/cr_swap partition 522092 0 -1 file -s /dev/md1 /dev/md1: data file -s /dev/mapper/cr_swap /dev/mapper/cr_swap: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size 130524 pages but after reboot file -s /dev/mapper/cr_swap /dev/mapper/cr_swap: cannot open `/dev/mapper/cr_swap' (No such file or directory) swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority how do i make this encrypted swap device 'stick' through boot? have i missed a step? thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org