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Upgraded a RAID. Copied everything from backup. And then my manager said I had to encrypt the drive. I've done that, and made the filesystem, but I can't mount it. CentOS 6. I have the entry in /etc/crypttab, and a key in /etc/crypt.pw, and the luks UUID in /etc/fstab. I cannot find the command that tells it to create the device in /dev/mapper from the info in /etc/crypttab. Clues for

...crypttab. >> >> Clues for the poor? Yes, the server will, at some point in the future, >> go to CentOS 7, but that needs my user to be off for a while, and his jobs >> run literally for weeks, with loads upwords of 30 on an HBS (honkin' big >> server).... > > MAPDEVICE=/dev/sdxy ; cryptsetup luksOpen ${MAPDEVICE} luks-$(cryptsetup > luksUUID ${MAPDEVICE}) Something's not right. I did cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb luks-$(cryptsetup luksUUID $(/dev/sdb)) --key-file /etc/crypt.pw It did want the password, so I added --key-file, but it seems to have created /...

...pper from the info in /etc/crypttab. > > Clues for the poor? Yes, the server will, at some point in the future, go > to CentOS 7, but that needs my user to be off for a while, and his jobs > run literally for weeks, with loads upwords of 30 on an HBS (honkin' big > server).... MAPDEVICE=/dev/sdxy ; cryptsetup luksOpen ${MAPDEVICE} luks-$(cryptsetup luksUUID ${MAPDEVICE}) MAPDEVICE=/dev/sdxy ; mount /dev/mapper/luks-$(cryptsetup luksUUID ${MAPDEVICE}) /mnt -- LF

...t;> Clues for the poor? Yes, the server will, at some point in the future, >>> go to CentOS 7, but that needs my user to be off for a while, and his jobs >>> run literally for weeks, with loads upwords of 30 on an HBS (honkin' big >>> server).... >> >> MAPDEVICE=/dev/sdxy ; cryptsetup luksOpen ${MAPDEVICE} luks-$(cryptsetup >> luksUUID ${MAPDEVICE}) > > Something's not right. I did > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb luks-$(cryptsetup luksUUID $(/dev/sdb)) > --key-file /etc/crypt.pw > > It did want the password, so I added --key-fi...