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marcanuy
Asked: 2019-01-14 13:23:19 +0800 CST

Setting correct size for "cryptsetup: WARNING: Option 'size' missing in crypttab for plain dm-crypt mapping root" message

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I have a full disk encryption using ecryptfs, after upgrading to 18.10 a warning message started to appearing at boot:

cryptsetup: WARNING: Option 'size' missing in crypttab for plain dm-crypt mapping root. Please read /usr/share/doc/cryptsetup/README.initramfs and add the correct 'size' option to your crypttab(5).

From what I see at /usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-initramfs/README.initramfs.gz I should edit /etc/cryptsetup and set the correct size, but how should this size be calculated for my system?

This is the content of /etc/crypttab:

 cryptswap1 UUID=1d1XXXXXXXXXXXX /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64
encryption ecryptfs cryptsetup 18.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Add the size like size=256 to /etc/crypttab configuration: 

    cryptswap1 UUID=1d1XXXXXXXXXXXX /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256
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  2. Editing the 'crypttab' file was not enough in my case (upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04).

    After editing the file, I had to disable (temporary) the swap file and re-generate the initramfs image:

    sudo swapoff -a
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo swapon -a

    Unfortunately, that step should be repeated after every kernel update.

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  3. If you only have encrypted swap partitions, the correct way to prevent initramfs from using them for resume is to add:

    RESUME=none into /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

    For example:

    echo "RESUME=none" | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
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