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Bug#885160: initramfs-tools-core: hooks/resume includes ephemeral encrypted swaps



On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 12:57 +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Ben Hutchings (2017-12-25):
> > You should see a message about this every time update-initramfs runs.
> 
> Indeed. But I never run update-initramfs, and I suspect many people do
> the same: I just let apt-get dist-upgrade run it for me, with the output
> lost in many lines. I probably should read them more carefully, but who
> does?
> 
> > If you can suggest a reliable way to identify such swap partitions,
> > then we may be able to exclude them.
> 
> ~ $ sudo update-initramfs -k $(uname -r) -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-1-amd64
> cryptsetup: WARNING: target aimlin-tempswap has a random key, skipped
> I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/dm-6
> I: (UUID=8bebd9d6-f71b-4447-a523-73f550cd9023)
> I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
> 
> Apparently the test already exists in hooks/cryptroot provided by
> cryptsetup.

OK, then I'll see if I can replicate whatever test it's doing.

Ben.

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