initrd, nash and encrypted hda

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thanx you very much about your comments on my LABEL problem. things are much clearer now!

i'd like to set it up on fc3 because i dont want to use fc2 the rest of my live :-) i just posted a msg to fedora-test-list which is indeed the right place to ask. 

it have to be possible :-)

greez bernd



On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:22:43 +0100
James Wilkinson <james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> fedora-list wrote:
> > i am trying to encrypt my hard disk with fc3 test3, device-mapper and
> > dm-crypt.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> You're not really on the right list: a *lot* of this has changed for
> FC3.
> 
> > i found out that this task is much more difficult than i toughed... so
> > if i may ask some questions?
> > 
> > 1.) whats the difference between 
> >       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 rw root=LABEL=/
> >     and
> >       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 rw root=/dev/ram0
> > in grub.conf. What is this LABEL-thing for? Where is defined /=>hda3?
> 
> ext3 filesystems can have a label which describes the filesystem. It
> sounds as though your hda3 is labelled /. The userspace mount program
> can use this to identify a filesystem, rather than the name of the
> device it's sitting on.
> 
> This is becoming more important: there are more situations these days
> when the name of the device will change. Fedora installs will
> automatically label filesystems they create.
> 
> Note that if you use LABEL in grub.conf, then you will need an initrd
> (which will contain a userspace mount, which can identify and boot from
> the right filesystem).
> 
> > Uhhh, any help on this topic really appreciated. Maybe someone knows a
> > tutorial on this topic (with kernel 2.6 and dm-crypt)?
> 
> At the moment, it might be easier to start from FC2.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 
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