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
>