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I haven't tested it with password that contains space. Try escape with
back slash key( \ ).
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Todd And Margo Chester <
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> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]**>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Xfce 4.8
>> Scientific Linux 6.2, 64 bit
>>
>> I have just encrypted my backup drive. Is there anyway
>> to get it into my fstab?
>>
>> Problem is rebooting removed the label I created in
>> /dev/mapper with
>>
>> # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak
>>
>> and in fstab, I can add:
>> /dev/mapper/lin-bak /lin-bak ext4 defaults 1 0
>>
>> But "/dev/mapper/lin-bak" vanishes on me after a reboot.
>>
>> I can double click on the icon on my desktop and
>> it will mount in "/media/lin-bak". But this plays
>> havoc on my scripts. Gives me a long funny name
>> in /dev/mapper too, which disappears when you
>> dismount.
>>
>> Be nice to be able to get the drive into my fstab.
>> If not, how do I mount it from the command line?
>>
>> If I try to mount directly, I get
>>
>> # mount /dev/sdb1 /lin-bak
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS'
>>
>> Perplexed,
>> -T
>>
>>
>>
> On 07/28/2012 07:31 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:> You need to map it in the file
> /etc/crypttab.
>
> >
> > You want to configure your /etc/crypttab file to look like this:
> > lin-bak /dev/sdb1
> >
>
> Ah ha! Thank you!
>
> In /etc/crypttab, how do you handle passwords with spaces in
> them? I think it gags on quote marks.
>
> -T
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