From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:35:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720193521.2ae70d75@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A0F3AB.1000907@thefreemanclan.net>
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Hello Richard Freeman,
> Ok, here is a question. I am using encrypted swap, with a script that
> creates a loopback off of my swap partition on each boot.
>
> The problem is that if a drive fails and I reboot, the device name for
> the drives will change. My mkswap could potentially wipe out the wrong
> partition in that case.
Use cryptsetup-luks to set up encrypted swap partitions and
use /etc/conf.d/cryptfs to manage it. If you use a different key for
swap, there's no risk of it unlocking the wrong partition and formatting
it.
--
Neil Bothwick
The word 'Windows' is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches.
It means: 'White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass...')
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 14:41 [gentoo-amd64] 2nd HDD for var, tmp, usr/portage, swap Bernhard Auzinger
2007-07-20 15:13 ` Bob Sanders
2007-07-20 17:10 ` Beso
2007-07-20 17:31 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-20 17:40 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-20 18:31 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-07-20 18:35 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-07-20 19:37 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-20 19:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-23 13:53 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-23 14:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-23 14:18 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-23 14:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-20 19:17 ` Marek Wróbel
2007-08-01 16:39 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-08-01 17:15 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-20 18:41 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-07-20 18:47 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Bernhard Auzinger
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