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Re: Swap encryption (via LUKS) and Hibernation (disk suspend)



On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:25:09PM -0400, Gerardo Curiel wrote:
> El vie, 04-05-2007 a las 13:03 -0400, q9u3x4c02@sneakemail.com escribió:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> After digging around manuals, search engines and forums, I have come to the conclusion that trying suspend to disk (hibernate) is a hit or miss with an encrypted swap via LUKS.
>> What is the state of of doing hibernation with encrypted swap in Debian? After doing a "fresh install" using the amazing Debian installer which pre-configures LUKS, what extra steps, if any, are needed to accomplish this goal?
> 
> Right now, just using uswsusp , with a encrypted swap partition, it
> works out of the box :D
> 
> The initramfs-tools package contains the needed hooks to unlock the
> encrypted partition with cryptsetup.It works for me.

Not for me. The initramfs was build upon install and it recognized my
encrypted swap, but after hibernation the correct device was not found.

Frank



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