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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org