Delayed encrypted partition mount

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 15:59:47 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 09:35 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 16:22:59 +0200,
>   Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > My question is simple: Given the fact that I rarely encrypt the root,
> > can I somehow delay the encrypted partition mount to right-before-gdm,
> > so all the essential services (samba, nfs, cups) - especially network
> > and sshd, will be up, so I can remotely type the password required to
> > mount the encrypted partitions?
> 
> I think under systemd there is a timeout and the system will continue to
> boot without the encrypted devices being mounted.

Yeah, I saw it.
I was looking for a somewhat cleaner solution.

- Gilboa



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