mount crypted partition

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Nov 14 17:32:58 UTC 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 16:37:04 +0000,
  Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I created a crypted partition and I wish to mount it during the boot.
> I set it in the /etc/fstab
> but I probably to load the appropriate module at the log time,
> like dm-mod or dm-crypt ?
> Where can I get them ?
> How can I load them before /etc/fstab ?
> Where can I find some doc ?

You should explain more about how you created an encrypted partition.
The normal way to do this is to select to encrypt when doing an install.
luks is used to do the encryption and prompting for a password is
integrated with the boot process.


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