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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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