cryptdisks_start(8)

cryptdisks_start – wrapper around cryptsetup that parses /etc/crypttab.

Synopsis

cryptdisks_start <name>

Description

cryptdisks_start is a wrapper around cryptsetup that parses /etc/crypttab just like the initscript /etc/init.d/cryptdisks does and starts the dm-crypt mapping that corresponds to <name>.

Note that this wrapper passes –key-file=- to cryptsetup, so the passphrase in any referenced key file must not be followed by a newline character.

See Also

cryptdisks_stop(8), cryptsetup(8), crypttab(5)

Author

This manual page was written by Jonas Meurer <mejo [at] debian.org> in December 2007.