Re: odd name of LUKS partition

[Piscium <groknok@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 03:06, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Because the drive with the LUKS partition was identified as sdb
> when the installer was running. Perhaps the installer was running
> from sda. This name 'sdb3_crypt' is just an arbitrary string used
> to name the LUKS volume in /etc/crypttab. You can't change this
> arbitrary string easily because it also is used inside the initrd, but
> it is possible if you're prepared to go down a rabbit hole of chroot
> and rebuild the initrd.

That makes sense. I installed from a pen-drive, so presumably it was
sda, that is my recollection too although I am not 100% sure. I won't
bother changing the name, I was just curious.

Thanks.