Comment 31 for bug 1310058

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Eric (ericscott07) wrote :

Hi there, I believe I patched the issue in ecryptfs-setup-swap which causes this problem in the first place.
This program now sets the swap's fstab to noauto, crypttab offset to 6, and creates a file in /etc/init which mounts the swap partition automatically as soon as it's ready.

I beleve there are 2 problems with the current setup. The first one is caused by the cryptswap changing the uuid of the drive. This is fixed by using an offset of 6 (* 512 bits) to skip the portion where the uuid is apparently stored. The second one is caused by fstab trying to mount the swap before cryptab has encrypted the partition. This is fixed by mounting the partition with the /etc/init file.

This program will still find multiple swap partitions on the harddrive, encrypt them, and mount them automatically at boot.

You can also use it to fix your current system by doing the following:
Delete all mention to the swap partitions in your /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab.
Restart your computer.
Reformat your swap partitions.
Enable your swap partitions and make sure they are running working properly.
Finally in the directory containing my patched verson run:
chmod +x ecryptfs-setup-swap
sudo ./ecryptfs-setup-swap
and restart your computer .

Now your swaps should all be encrypted and working!
If this doesn't work for you please let me know.