Can You Mount more than one encrypted volume?
If you set up more than one encrypted volume during the installation, the notes you wrote down as the last step in Section 6.3.3.6, “Configuring Encrypted Volumes”come in handy. If you did not make a note of the mapping between part_cryptand the mount points before, you can still find it in /etc/crypttaband /etc/fstabof your new system.
Where to mount an encrypted root file system?
If you did not make a note of the mapping between part_cryptand the mount points before, you can still find it in /etc/crypttaband /etc/fstabof your new system. The prompt may look somewhat different when an encrypted root file system is mounted. This depends on which initramfs generator was used to generate the initrd used to boot the system.
What happens when I mount an encrypted file system?
The prompt may look somewhat different when an encrypted root file system is mounted. This depends on which initramfs generator was used to generate the initrd used to boot the system. The example below is for an initrd generated using initramfs-tools:
How to mount an encrypted file in Luks?
Begin: Mounting root file system… Begin: Running /scripts/local-top Enter LUKS passphrase: No characters (even asterisks) will be shown while entering the passphrase. If you enter the wrong passphrase, you have two more tries to correct it.
How to automount a LUKS encrypted volume on system start?
When an encrypted volume is set up afterwards, the volume remains locked until the volume is first accessed from the GUI file manager or is mounted manually. Such a volume as described in Created luks encrypted partition on Linux Mint is not directly available during or after system startup.
How to add a key to an encrypted volume?
Adding an additional key to the encrypted volume requires the user to enter one of the already assigned keys or passphrases. The output (-v for verbose) shows that the passphrase for slot 0 was entered. Using the “luksDump” action, the details of the encrypted volume can be shown. What’s interesting at this point are the assigned keys.