Bug#775874: debian-installer: Name of encrypted volume is confusing and may lead to inadvertent data-loss
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Currently, when configuring an encrypted volume, the debian installer
names it after the disk and partition it happens to be on at the time
of installation e.g. sda3_crypt.
If the disk and/or partition names change at a later time, this
name becomes confusing, and may even lead to data loss when a user
mistakenly infers that the encrypted volume is located on the
partition that its name seems to imply.
As the encrypted volume's name is assigned based on its contents
and not on its location, the name should be generic, and not
depend on the disk name.
Please consider fixing this.
Kind regards,
Rogier.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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