Hi, All. I have been using an external WD 120GB USB drive, and have just added a WD320 MyBook. To upgrade my overall security, I formatted the latter as an encrypted drive using the SUSE partition manager. I like it, and am thinking of getting a matching drive so I can have a data drive and a backup - WD320A and WD320B.
The problem I have is that I cannot anticipate where the different drives will be attached during boot up - /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1. If these change, and they do, my mount points become useless. For unencrypted drives, I have found that one can mount by label in /etc/fstab, e.g., LABEL=WD320A, and can set the label using the SUSE partitioning program. I cannot, however, find a similar procedure for encrypted partitions - you cannot, apparently, specify a label for an encrypted drive/partition with the provided partition program. I have searched a bit, but can find no solution on the web or news groups. To summarize, I would like to either force the mounting of encrypted partitions on external USB drives to /dev/sda1, etc. Or, would like to be able to mount encrypted drives correctly without regard to their /dev/sdxx. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Can someone point me toward a relevant discussion? OS: SUSE 10.0 TIA -- Dennis E. Slice Department of Anthropology University of Vienna ======================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
