Comment 7 for bug 201413

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 201413] Re: More helpful names/prompts for encrypted partitions

Christian Juner [2008-04-03 9:33 -0000]:
> I have yet refrained from installing this update because I actually have
> to hard drives which are encrypted independently - so I am asked for two
> passwords each boot. How will this affect me? I use two different
> passwords so I need to tell the hard drives them appart.

While you can certainly have more than one encrypted partition, you
can only ever have *one* root partition. This is where the string
changed. For other encrypted partitions, the prompt will continue to
contain a drive name.