Re: Hidden UUID?
18.10.23, 09:01 +0200, Hans:
> My swap partition is a logical partition on an extended partition.
> This swap was formerly luks encrypted and got an UUID beginning with
> UUID=30e885.....
>
> Then I deciced, to format the swap partitition and use it as a normal swap
> partition. So I erased all keys (using cryptsetup erase /dev/sda5) and then
> reformatted it with swapon.
>
> Additionally I removed the entry from /etc/crypttab and edited /etc/fstab.
>
> So far, everything worked fine, except next boot.
>
> When booting, cryptsetup wants to open my other encrypted partitions and then
> it is hanging, saying "searching for encrypted device UUID=30e885....".
>
> I looked everywhere, but I found no entry, where the system gets this UUID.
>
> Of course my swap partition now got another UUID, but why is cryptsetup still
> knowing of the old UUID? What did I miss?
If you haven't re-created the initial ramdisk for your system, that
might be the culprit. You can do something like
# update-initamfs -u
to re-create the initramfs for the running kernel.
$ man update-initramfs
shows more options.
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Regards
mks
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