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Diffstat (limited to 'crypttab.5')
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@@ -90,14 +90,18 @@ it has to be entered twice (to prevent typos). The encrypted block device will be used as a swap partition, and will be formatted as a swap partition after setting up the encrypted block device. -The underlying block device must be already formatted -as an (unencrypted) swap partition, -and will be formatted again as an unencrypted swap partition +The underlying block device +will be formatted again as an unencrypted swap partition after destroying the encrypted block device. (This allows sharing a single swap partition between operating system installations, with some of them encrypting the swap partitions and some of them not.) +\fIWARNING\fR: Using the +.B swap +option will destroy the contents of the named partition during every boot, so +make sure the underlying block device is specified correctly. + .PP No options can be specified for LUKS encrypted partitions. |