On 2021-01-22 05:34:05 Carlos E.R. wrote:
|On 22/01/2021 11.41, Daniel Bauer wrote: |> Hi, |> |> when booting I have a message |> |> a start ob is running for de-disk-by\... |> |> It takes one and half a minute until it gives up. |> |> After googling I found that this is because of an entry in crypttab for |> an encrypted disk that is not available at boot time. Actually it is a |> external back-up disk that I only mount when needed and then remove again. |> |> So I removed that entry from crypttab and next boot was fine, but |> because of some magic the entry in crypttab appeares again and the boot |> delay also happens again, of course. | |I have not noticed entries reappearing, but most if not all my external |encrypted disks are listed there, manually. I think. | |> |> That external disk isn't in fstab. I just plug it, wait for the notifier |> to see it, click to attach it, enter the passphrase. Later I remove it |> with that same notifier. |> |> Why is an entry written to crypttab? Can I avoid that somehow? | |Maybe change some option to "noauto". :-? | I have an external drive with several encrypted partitions for backups, which cause this same delay, even though the entries in fstab include 'noauto'. There is no such option for crypttab. Perhaps something in the boot initrd is cleverly being 'helpful', à la Windows' Clippy.
Leslie --