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How can I use a keyfile on a removable USB drive for my encrypted root in Debian?

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Recently set up root encryption with a couple of LVM volumes inside one LUKS volume, and I am just a little confused as to how I would go about getting it to automatically unlock using a keyfile stored on a USB flash drive, I presume I would have to put the drive in the fstab inside my initramfs (i…

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solved on ubuntu...might require a little tweaking for debian, but you get the idea http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843571 note you wouldn't need the mmc options added to ramdisk as he did in that tutorial since usb should already be loaded…

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