Using encrypted disks

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 17:40:47 -0700,
  Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> >
> >  I am not sure what special about that casing is resulting in you not
> >  getting prompted for a password, but udev (and its rules) would be
> >  where you can customize this.
> >
> I think you misunderstand.
> 
> I get prompted (via pop up window that identifies the drive and asks
> for the password).   I attach a typical prompt window.

That is different than what I see. I get text prompts during the boot
process. (There are actually two parts to this since / and swap need to
get going before udev is started and two other encrypted partitions
get mounted by udev.) None of these supply the name of the file system
being dealt with. I was thinking of filing a bug, but didn't really want
to push the guys that spent a lot of time working on this so close to the
release. It really is a pretty minor thing compared to getting the feature
to work. Also I am not sure of what information is really available at
that point. There is a luks uuid, but I wasn't asked to enter any human
readable kind of label. In many cases the encryption will be right below
the file system and the mount point or label information may be readily
available, but in cases where people are separately encrypting each
element of a raid array, that information may not be as useful.