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Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?



On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:02:02 -0400
Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote:
> >> After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a
> >> list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I
> >> thought it would be a simple matter of changing the relevant UUID
> >> to the current one. It is apparently not.
> >
> > Did you rebuild the initramfs at this stage? If not, you'll need to
> > do that first.
> 
> Yes, that needed to be done; and I did so.  Putting the relevant
> UUIDs in file /etc/crypttab, which I also did, however is not enough
> to have the boot process ask for the passkey for encrypted partitions
> and so to allow mounting of them, in my case /home and /tmp.  Systemd
> requires some other rebuilding to allow it to use the information in
> file /etc/crypttab.
> 
> So, unless someone on the list knows enough about systemd to tell me 
> what to that process is and how to do it, I am reduced to two
> choices: either take the time (how long?) to learn about systemd, or
> to reinstall Jessie in the box.  If the latter, which probably will
> be quicker, it will be the third time I had to do so since mid-April
> when I first installed Jessie in this box.

Like Sven has asked, what does your /etc/fstab look like?

Petter

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