Re: odd name of LUKS partition
On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 03:19:20 (+0100), Piscium wrote:
> 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.
A dozen or so lines from the end of /var/log/installer/syslog,
you'll probably see a line like:
Apr 17 01:43:04 cdrom-detect: Unmounting and ejecting '/dev/sdXn'
which is the d-i "ejecting" the "CD" that the installer was on.
Cheers,
David.
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