Bug 104441

Summary: LVM: How to mount existing encrypted LVs?
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Lenz Grimmer <lgrimmer>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Arvin Schnell <aschnell>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: Tarball of /var/log/YaST2

Description Lenz Grimmer 2005-08-12 16:01:26 UTC 
I performed a fresh installation of 10.0b1 on a system that uses LVM for disk
management. I created a new LV named "suse10root" for the root partition, using
the YaST2 LVM module. I then wanted to mount my existing home directory, which
is an encrypted file in a separate LV (/dev/system/cryptohome).

However, I dared not to proceed doing this via YaST: when I mark this LV and
click "Edit" and set the mount point to /home, select "Do not format" and
"Encrypt file system", YaST2 opens a dialogue that asks me for the passphrase
twice. The Help text in that dialogue talks about "you will *create* a crypted
file system...".

At this point I was too scared to continue, as I did not want to risk losing my
home directory by accident. I rather created /etc/cryptotab manually after
booting into the fresh installed system, which worked flawlessly.

Please either make this dialoge less frightening (if it actually just mounts an
existing encrypted FS), or fix the bug that lead me down that track :)

Thanks!
Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-08-12 20:07:52 UTC 
sorry, changed the wrong bug
Comment 2 Stanislav Visnovsky 2005-08-15 07:35:52 UTC 
Please, attach the YaST logs. 
 
See http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug for details how to do it.
Comment 3 Lenz Grimmer 2005-08-15 09:32:10 UTC 
Sorry, I should have done that right away. Here they are.
Comment 4 Lenz Grimmer 2005-08-15 09:33:19 UTC 
Created attachment 46027 [details]
Tarball of /var/log/YaST2

The relevant y2log seems to be y2log-3
Comment 5 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-15 14:11:12 UTC 
I have improved the help text for Beta 2.
Comment 6 Lenz Grimmer 2005-08-18 13:01:36 UTC 
Looks better now, thanks!