Bug#676388: nautilus should look in /etc/crypttab for mapping encrypted volumes

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jun 7 07:03:09 UTC 2012


reassign 676388 udisks
severity 676388 wishlist
thanks

Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 22:16 +0530, Praveen A a écrit : 
> Currently it uses UUID of the partition to create mount point for
> encrypted partition, which is not very friendly (cannot remember such
> long name). 

> luks does not offer a label option for partitions so the
> logical place to put an easier name is in /etc/crypttab but nautilus
> does not look at this file at all. It would be very useful to have a
> custom name than the UUID.

The volume name is not set in the encrypted device. Use tune2fs -L or
gnome-disk-utility to set a label on your partition and that’s all.

The change you propose would be heavy with practically no added value.

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