On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:20:55 -0800 > Vagrant Cascadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... > > is there any way to configure uswsusp to use an un-mounted swap > > partition? > > No, not at the moment. > > > i don't want to mount the swap partition just to use uswsusp, as > > something might swap data out to it. > > I understand... > > > and it seems impractical to be able to support encrypted swap partitions > > (especially with a dynamically generated encryption key). > > I presume you also encrypt other partitions, right? Can't you just use a > regular key for swap too?
could do that. though it's nice to be able to use a randomly generated key to make it almost impossible to retrieve swap data. i guess i could use two swap partitions, one with a regular key and one with a randomly generated key... and configure uswsusp to use the one with the regular key, but arrange them so most data is usually swapped to the randomly generated key partition... > That way you can use your encrypted-swap for > s2disk to. You should just make sure swap is set up before resume runs. i don't think initramfs-tools handles the crypsetup swap devices- that gets taken care during the init scripts. but probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to fix. > > the ugly workaround i've done is: > > > > swapon /dev/hda1 ; s2disk ; swapoff /dev/hda1 > > > > but that doesn't seem real great. > > No it doesn't, but it works;) But seriously, I don't think it it is a > good idea to make it possible for s2disk to write to a random unmounted > partition. The fact that a partition is used as swap gives reassurance that it > doesn't have any valuable data on it and can be written to without and risk > of whipping out some unmounted parition. i can see that. though you could use some other partition type that is dedicated for hibernation (such as A0), rather than a swap partition. using a swap partition for purposes other than swap seems kind of hackish to me. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
