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I have installed centos 6 and added an encrypted drive on a separate partition.
/dev/hda1 / ext4
/dev/hda2 /usr ext4
/dev/hda3 /user encrypted ext4
At boot time, the system hangs until the pass phrase for the encrypted partition is supplied.
I would like the system to boot without the /user file system, either after a timeout, or better yet boot without the partition so that there is no indication that the partition exists. I would then mount the disk manually when needed.
It might also be nice for the system to dismount the disk after some hours/days of inactivity on the file system, and require the user to re-enter the password.
Unfortunately this causes the system to go into maintenance mode at boot because it cannot mount the file system. I suppose one also needs to remove the entry for the file system in fstab?
I also could not find the "noauto" option for crypttab in the man page.
Unfortunately this causes the system to go into maintenance mode at boot because it cannot mount the file system. I suppose one also needs to remove the entry for the file system in fstab?
I also could not find the "noauto" option for crypttab in the man page.
Unfortunately this causes the system to go into maintenance mode at boot because it cannot mount the file system. I suppose one also needs to remove the entry for the file system in fstab?
I also could not find the "noauto" option for crypttab in the man page.
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