> 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