On 2021-01-26 05:41:12 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|On 26/01/2021 11.27, J Leslie Turriff wrote: |> On 2021-01-26 03:12:37 Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> |On 26/01/2021 09.11, J Leslie Turriff wrote: |>> |> On 2021-01-25 01:54:05 Radosław Wyrzykowski wrote: |>> |>> |On sobota, 23 stycznia 2021 01:42:32 CET Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> | |>> |... |>> | |>> |>> |Do you remember to rerun dracut after you mess with /etc/crypttab? Apparently |>> |>> |some script assembles a crypttab used by the initramfs at that time and if you |>> |>> |don't regenerate it, your changes won't be reflected at boot time. |>> | |>> |> Why would I remember to do that, when there is no mention of dracut in either crypttab or cryptsetup man files? I had never even heard of dracut until you asked. (And, in the dracut man file there is no mention of crypttab at all, either.) |>> | |>> |On openSUSE you may run the old "mkinitrd", which in fact runs dracut |>> |with the proper options. |>> | |>> |Well, it is one of those administrivia and admin must know ;-) |>> | |> And each of us who runs Linux for their own use is essentially its system administrator. If dracut and crypttab interact, their documentation ought to say so. | |Not directly. | |They interact because the distribution designers have configured them to |interact, I understand. Not because of upstream. | |Or because dracut finds out, somehow, that crypttab must be included. | |I don't know exactly how dracut works, I have to make educated guesses. | | |>> |Dracut man page doesn't mention initrd, | |crypttab (typo) | |>> because after all, there are |>> |hundreds of configuration files it worries about, depending on each |>> |distribution setup. |>> | |>> |cryptab file might contain a reference to this. |> |> It does not. | |I know it doesn't :-) | |If you want the reference to be there, writeup a bugzilla asking for a |comment to be added on the file ;-) | Yes, I think I will.
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