[Bug 876867] Re: Gparted does not recognize ecryptfs swap

[Jan Claeys]

This encrypted partition has nothing to do with ecryptfs itself, but
it's created by an ecryptfs setup tool (because of course an ecryptfs
filesystem is not secure when people can potentially read the key from
the swap, so the setup tool proposes to also setup a dm-crypt encrypted
swap).

And I don't think there is a way to detect a partition encrypted with
raw dm-crypt (where raw = an encrypted partition that doesn't have a
LUKS header).  LUKS headers are detected & those partitions are labeled
as such in GParted, so that's not a problem.

PS: if I'm right about this being impossible to detect and thus also
impossible to "fix", the bug should probably be marked as "won't fix"?

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Title:
  Gparted does not recognize ecryptfs swap

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Gparted sees swap (/dev/sda5) as unknown.  See attached screenshot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 17 17:04:14 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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