Re: [dm-crypt] Encrypted LVs /root, /home, and swap mount at boot, as does 'shared' data LV but without write access?

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

Sounds like a problem you should complain to Ubuntu about.
This mailing list here is only for the raw "cryptsetup" 
command...

Arno

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 19:00:00 CEST, Dáire Fagan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Although the /dev/mapper/vg-shared volume mounts at boot automatically
> like /root and /home, and although I can open it without having to
> enter the passphrase again, I cannot create files on it.
> 
> From the commands below, that I used to set up /root, /home, and swap
> mounting at boot with a single passphrase entry, I have tried
> replacing the command 'sudo mount /dev/vg/ubuntu-root /mnt' with 'sudo
> mount /dev/vg/shared /mnt' but then when i go onto the next command
> 'sudo chroot /mnt mount /proc' it gives me the error 'chroot: failed
> to run command ‘mount’: No such file or directory'.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I should edit the following commands so that
> /dev/vg/-shared not only mounts at boot, but I can also write to it?
> Is my encryption method below best practice, apart from needing to run
> cryptsetup first? Is there anyway to have the partition appear as
> /media/daire/shared instead of a long /media/daire/long-hex-string?
> 
> sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 enc-pv
> Enter passphrase for /dev/sda6:
> sudo mount /dev/vg/ubuntu-root /mnt
> sudo chroot /mnt mount /proc
> sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> sudo chroot /mnt mount /boot
> sudo echo "enc-pv UUID=`sudo blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/sda6` none
> luks" | sudo tee -a /mnt/etc/crypttab
> enc-pv UUID=ad8b8a32-95ea-4add-abe6-
> 326d151e30fa none luks
> sudo chroot /mnt update-initramfs -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
> sudo umount /mnt/proc /mnt/dev /mnt/boot /mnt
> 
> Would it messy to just use something like sudo chown -R $daire:$daire
> /mnt/shared ?
> 
> ==================================================================================
> 
> If you need more information the following is how I have encrypted the
> /root, /home, and swap partitions on a disk already containing Windows
> 8.1 and only require a single passphrase entry on boot:
> 
> (I have read the Ubuntu alternate install CD used to offer this option
> before Canonical cancelled it)
> 
> I create 500 MiB ext4 sda5 partition that will later be assigned as
> /boot (UEFI Win 8.1 partitions on sda1, sda2, sda3, and sda4)
> 
> sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda6
> 
> 12 hours elapse.
> 
> dd: writing to ‘/dev/sda6’: No space left on device
> 660092929+0 records in
> 660092928+0 records out
> 337967579136 bytes (338 GB) copied, 39571.4 s, 8.5 MB/s[/CODE]
> 
> [modprobe dm-crypt
> modprobe aes-x86_64
> modprobe sha256
> 
> When I do this over I will run cryptsetup benchmark first to see which
> iteration and algorithm works best for my system.
> 
> sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda6
> 
> WARNING!
> ========
> This will overwrite data on /dev/sda6 irrevocably.
> 
> Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
> Enter passphrase:
> Verify passphrase:
> sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 enc-pv
> Enter passphrase for /dev/sda6:
> 
> sudo pvcreate /dev/mapper/enc-pv
>  Physical volume "/dev/mapper/enc-pv" successfully created
> sudo vgcreate vg /dev/mapper/enc-pv
>  Volume group "vg" successfully created
> sudo lvcreate -L 8.5G -n swap vg
>  Logical volume "swap" created
> sudo lvcreate -L 20G -n ubuntu-root vg
>  Logical volume "ubuntu-root" created
> sudo lvcreate -L 50G -n ubuntu-home vg
>  Logical volume "ubuntu-home" created
> sudo lvcreate -L 140G -n shared vg
>  Logical volume "shared" created
> 
> sudo lvdisplay
>  --- Logical volume ---
>  LV Path                /dev/vg/swap
>  LV Name                swap
>  VG Name                vg
>  LV UUID                EMSdc1-yTSS-FF9W-5vcv-jEwF-OeF7-5oOoEI
>  LV Write Access        read/write
>  LV Creation host, time ubuntu, 2014-04-23 12:57:17 +0000
>  LV Status              available
>  # open                 0
>  LV Size                8.50 GiB
>  Current LE             2176
>  Segments               1
>  Allocation             inherit
>  Read ahead sectors     auto
>  - currently set to     256
>  Block device           252:1
> 
>  --- Logical volume ---
>  LV Path                /dev/vg/ubuntu-root
>  LV Name                ubuntu-root
>  VG Name                vg
>  LV UUID                TCPIIE-fGv0-3tz8-XP3R-1c9Z-E18R-XTbcOd
>  LV Write Access        read/write
>  LV Creation host, time ubuntu, 2014-04-23 12:58:41 +0000
>  LV Status              available
>  # open                 0
>  LV Size                20.00 GiB
>  Current LE             5120
>  Segments               1
>  Allocation             inherit
>  Read ahead sectors     auto
>  - currently set to     256
>  Block device           252:2
> 
>  --- Logical volume ---
>  LV Path                /dev/vg/shared
>  LV Name                shared
>  VG Name                vg
>  LV UUID                dPHDeT-52zj-7bAx-xjzP-p4yC-kXoo-aw7Eac
>  LV Write Access        read/write
>  LV Creation host, time ubuntu, 2014-04-23 12:59:50 +0000
>  LV Status              available
>  # open                 0
>  LV Size                140.00 GiB
>  Current LE             35840
>  Segments               1
>  Allocation             inherit
>  Read ahead sectors     auto
>  - currently set to     256
>  Block device           252:4
> 
>  --- Logical volume ---
>  LV Path                /dev/vg/ubuntu-home
>  LV Name                ubuntu-home
>  VG Name                vg
>  LV UUID                pWFs3D-MXrh-bMez-68r0-4yPc-zMTo-MGhNF1
>  LV Write Access        read/write
>  LV Creation host, time ubuntu, 2014-04-23 13:06:11 +0000
>  LV Status              available
>  # open                 0
>  LV Size                50.00 GiB
>  Current LE             12800
>  Segments               1
>  Allocation             inherit
>  Read ahead sectors     auto
>  - currently set to     256
>  Block device           252:3
> 
> sudo vgdisplay | grep -i free
>  Free  PE / Size       24641 / 96.25 GiB[/CODE]
> 
> sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-shared
> 
> mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
> 9175040 inodes, 36700160 blocks
> 1835008 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
> 1120 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 8192 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>    32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
>    4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
> 
> Allocating group tables: done
> Writing inode tables: done
> Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> 
> There was similar output for:
> 
> sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-ubuntu-root
> sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-ubuntu-home
> 
> I may have needed to add an extra hyphen, like vg-ubuntu--root
> 
> Next I opened the Ubuntu 14.04 installer and selected 'something
> else'. I assigned /boot to the 500 MiB partition on sda5 and then
> /root, /home, and swap to the logical /dev/mapper/vg volumes.
> 
> After Ubuntu installs, before rebooting from the live USB, I entered
> the following:
> 
> sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 enc-pv
> Enter passphrase for /dev/sda6:
> sudo mount /dev/vg/ubuntu-root /mnt
> sudo chroot /mnt mount /proc
> sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> sudo chroot /mnt mount /boot
> sudo echo "enc-pv UUID=`sudo blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/sda6` none
> luks" | sudo tee -a /mnt/etc/crypttab
> enc-pv UUID=ad8b8a32-95ea-4add-abe6-326d151e30fa none luks
> sudo chroot /mnt update-initramfs -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
> sudo umount /mnt/proc /mnt/dev /mnt/boot /mnt
> 
> On reboot Ubuntu boots asking for only one entry of the passphrase
> instead of three, one for each encrypted volume.
> 
> ==================================================================
> 
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