Bugzilla – Bug 104441
LVM: How to mount existing encrypted LVs?
Last modified: 2005-08-18 13:01:36 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!
sorry, changed the wrong bug
Please, attach the YaST logs. See http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug for details how to do it.
Sorry, I should have done that right away. Here they are.
Created attachment 46027 [details] Tarball of /var/log/YaST2 The relevant y2log seems to be y2log-3
I have improved the help text for Beta 2.
Looks better now, thanks!