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collinm

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Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 31

encrypted partition

hi

i have an encrypted partition use by suse
is there a way to use it with arch linux?

thanks

WhiteMagic

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Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 85

Re: encrypted partition

Generally you would use the same method you (or suse) uses to mount and unlock the encrypted partition.

If you use Luks for the encryption with dm_crypt you could simply run:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hdaX name_of_partition
mount /dev/mapper/name_of_partition /partition_mountpoint

To do all of this atomatically you would need to edit /mnt/etc/crypttab and enter the needed information.

Here are two wiki entries concerning LUKS with Arch, they do not directly relate to what you need but you could use some pieces of it.
LUKS Encrypted Root
RAID Encryption LVM

Most of the above is only valid when you're using LUKS I suppose. I also can't say anything about other methods because I never used them.