From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oBVuSwQOjNrf for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:52:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:52:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:52:47 +0200 From: Heinz Diehl Message-ID: <20120822155247.GA1663@fancy-poultry.org> References: <20120822122441.GA19236@tansi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Encrypt all partitions with dm-crypt List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On 22.08.2012, Stayvoid wrote: > > you need to map and mount it manually. > I've never tried this before. Could you be more specific? First, you have to unlock your encrypted partition, e.g. cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdX home > I understand how to use "mount." What I don't understand is how to > enter the system when my home is encrypted. I guess that I won't be > able to login. Is this correct? You don't need the /home partition to boot your machine properly. Unless your distribution has some tools which handle the login/open/mount-procedure for you, you are not able to boot into runlevel 5 directly. You could boot into rl1, open your encrypted /home, mount it on /home mount /dev/mapper/home /home and boot into rl5 afterwards (init 5). > Could you also tell me what I should have in fstab? That's impossible without more information on your partitions. Unless you are targeting to do all the stuff yourself, I would recommend using a dsitribution which handles the crypto-stuff for you, e.g. Archlinux, Fedora, Opensuse, Debian, Ubuntu... whatever. There's full support in at least Arch and Fedora.