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nicolasdiogo
August 5th, 2008, 03:59 PM
hi folks,

i have installed ubuntu 8 hardy on a laptop using lvm and create partition for:
/ root
/home
/var
/opt
swap

everything worked fine.

until i then tried to encrypt my /home and /swap

according to the howto at this location.
http://blog.gnist.org/article.php?story=EncryptedSwapAndHomeUbuntu

the swap encryption seems to work fine.
i am failing to see how to do the /home partition mounted at login.


i followed all the advice to the letter and double checked, but no errors.
it will not mount /home at login.

but if i manually open the partition (with password) and mount it as /home it works fine.


did anyone try to do this?

could you give some idea on how to troubleshoot this?


Many thanks


Nicolas

tamoneya
August 5th, 2008, 09:13 PM
can we see /etc/fstab.

nicolasdiogo
August 7th, 2008, 10:58 AM
hi,


but i think i have solved the problem by fixing a misspell on the pam XML file.

for the record,

my /home is not listed on the fstab file as it is loaded via pam when i log in.


thanks a lot

Nicolas