Is there a way to skip mounting an encrypted filesystem (RH 6.1)?

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Fri Sep 9 14:18:04 UTC 2011


On 09/09/2011 08:54 AM, redhatter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When booting in text mode, RH6.1 asks for the password for an encrypted
> filesystem.
> 
> We don't want to mount it, but skip mounting it!
> 
> Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a way to say so. The password
> entry query reappears infinitely often!
> 
> This is unlike in Fedora, IIRC, 3 passes and you are skipping....
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -- David
> 
Hi David,

Just a shot in the dark here.  How about commenting out the entry in
both the /etc/fstab and the /etc/crypttab?

Phil




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