Using encrypted disks

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:54:07 +0100,
  Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> That makes sense.  However, at the time I wrote my mind was on my 
> single-filesystem installation.  It just doesn't feel sensible to have to 
> give the password twice in this case.

It is probably easier to securely delete the password if it can be done
right away rather than saving it to potentially be used in other mounts
(particularly for filesystems mounted by udev).