On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 03:06, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Because the drive with the LUKS partition was identified as sdb > when the installer was running. Perhaps the installer was running > from sda. This name 'sdb3_crypt' is just an arbitrary string used > to name the LUKS volume in /etc/crypttab. You can't change this > arbitrary string easily because it also is used inside the initrd, but > it is possible if you're prepared to go down a rabbit hole of chroot > and rebuild the initrd.
That makes sense. I installed from a pen-drive, so presumably it was sda, that is my recollection too although I am not 100% sure. I won't bother changing the name, I was just curious. Thanks.