On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:31:59 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:01:22PM +0000, Zoho Vignochi wrote: >> Hello: >> >> I have one of the famous Eeepc's and I performed a hardware hack in >> order to expand internal drive storage space. So I have the internal >> ssd card (/ dev/sda) 4 GB and a usb stick soldered to one of the usb >> ports and held internally (/dev/sdb) 32 GB. >> >> So I used lvm to install. I have a boot partition /dev/sda1 which is >> 255M (a bit overkill I know) and the rest of sda is formatted for lvm >> with the volume group "system" which contains a root, usr, var >> partitions. >> >> On /dev/sdb I set up a volume group "data" which contains swap, tmp, >> home all on encrypted lvm. >> >> The problem is that during the boot process uswsusp wants to access the >> swap partition to resume from but the crypto device is not yet >> available. Is there a kernel commandline option to mount the crypto >> device earlier? I suppose I will have to make a device node in >> /dev/.static/dev becuase it needs to mount before udev starts. Is this >> correct? >> >> > I do this, though not on lvm. I have written a little script that > unencrypts the swap partition and I've put that script into the initrd > so that it runs before uswsusp tries to start up. It mounts and reads a > key from my sd card and uses that key to unlock the swap partition. > > Essentially, you need to activate the encryption and lvm early on, > though I don't think you need a static device node to do it. you need > dev-mapper up, but I think it comes up really early and shouldn't be a > problem. > > If you need more details, I can send you my scripts later when I'm on my > laptop. > That would be very helpful!
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