crypted partition

[Edward Martinez]

On 7/11/2013 3:53 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I have a luks partition which is mount at boot time:
> in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/mapper/luks-21e00840-01b6-4ba1-8ab2-d4cfe70430e8 /home
>
> How can I know what is the physical partition ?
> df gives:
> /dev/dm-16   /home
> blkid gives:
> /dev/mapper/luks-21e00840-01b6-4ba1-8ab2-d4cfe70430e8: UUID="85da123b-7dcc-403e-b28b-2bd16cd6d504" TYPE="ext4"

        pvdisplay  command should show the physical device(s) 
corresponding to all volume groups
        mapper devices are  basically  new created block storage devices 
out of others.
        hope this helps:-)


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