[ale] mounting encrypted partition

Chris Farris chrisf at primeharbor.com
Wed Nov 19 02:48:13 EST 2003


Have an /etc/cryptotab:

/dev/loop1      /dev/hda6       /crypt  reiserfs        twofish noatime

/etc/init.d/boot.crypto start should mount it.

Chris



On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:56, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> I created an encrypted partition using the installation from Suse 8.2 on hard 
> disk 2. Unfortunately, the superblock on hard disk 1 went bad and I replaced 
> it with another drive running Suse.
> I have not been able to figure out how to mount the encrypted filesystem on 
> disk 2. The closest I have gotten is:
> 
> mount -t xfs -o loop,encryption=blowfish /dev/loop1 /z
> losetup -t xfs /dev/loop0 /dev/hdc2
> mount -t xfs -o loop,encryption=twofish /dev/loop1 /z
> 
> These are just guesses - following the format of posts to other lists and 
> considering the fact that I am not sure what encryption was used (Suse's 
> default) and I am not sure what file system was used. Anyone know how I can 
> go about getting this to mount. I couldn't find an GUI way in Suse either.



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