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#1 2012-07-12 05:25:17
- bud
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Decrypt home partition from usb stick during boot
Hello
I have a home folder that is encrypted via dm_crypt, I want it to be decrypted during boot from a usb-stick. The thing is that crypttab goes before fstab, so I cant put the usb stick in fstab and then point to it in crypttab.
So whats the best alternative here? Could I perhaps make something in grub (as when you have a encrypted root during boot).
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#2 2012-07-12 06:42:27
- ebal
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Re: Decrypt home partition from usb stick during boot
Does this help ?
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#3 2012-07-12 07:01:18
- bud
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Re: Decrypt home partition from usb stick during boot
Ah! I missed that one, thx. But what should I write in crypttab? O_o
Edit: Or should i add home in grub as the cryptdevice? 
Edit2: Got it! thx
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#4 2013-02-24 21:37:19
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Re: Decrypt home partition from usb stick during boot
Sorry to reopen this old post, but could you share how? I can't find it. I tried putting /dev/sd*1/key and /dev/sdc1/key in /etc/crypttab. Both didn't work.
Last edited by GaDDiM (2013-02-24 22:38:51)
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