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Bob91
Asked: 2019-01-10 04:16:56 +0800 CST

mounting veracrypt partition on boot

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I want to mount automatically, at startup, a veracrypt partition. But the problem is that I can't mount it by the command line, 'cause, when I type this command:

# veracrypt -t --non-interactive -p some-password /dev/sdaX /media/veracrypt1/

I get the fallowing output:

Operation failed due to one or more of the following:
- Incorrect password.
- Incorrect Volume PIM number.
- Incorrect PRF (hash).
- Not a valid volume.

Enter password for /dev/sdaX:

and I have to put the password again, but this time, it mounts the partition.

So I need to mount it from the command line so I can set a script to mount it automatically at startup.

command-line mount veracrypt

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In such cases usually the problem is caused by the special characters used within the password. So probably you need to quote the password:

    ... -p 'some-password' ...

    or

    ... -p'some-password' ...
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