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.
|Dracut man page doesn't mention initrd, 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.
| |If the encrypted disk is "/", then the initrd or initramfs must know how |to open it. That's why. | | |In my case, my initrd file is dated "Jan 17 04:08". My machine booted on |"Jan 23 22:24:40", so no, I did not run mkinitrd. |
Leslie --