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Does /sbin/cryptsetup exist?





user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm trying to research my way through this. It looks like "initramfs" is for initial booting of the kernal into my computer's ram and "cryptsetup" involves encrypting and decrypting files on my computer as it accesses them. Does that sound about right?

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

About. cryptsetup-initramfs isn't finding any disks that need it, so it doesn't know what to do. If that's because you don't have any, then following the warning's advice and uninstalling the package should be fine. The warning is harmless in that case though, so if some package you do need depends on it you can just ignore the warning.

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's the terminal command to find out?

Edit: Found it in file manager. I have cryptsetup as well as three other files that start with crypt.

cryptdisk_start

cryptdisks_stop

And cryptsetup_reencrypt

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you actually using it? If you're not using whole disk encryption for any of your disks, the answer is no.

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you mean, am I encypting my disks currently? No. For some reason, my computer gets borked when I use disk encryption, no matter what distro I use.

So my PC is okay? It's safe to use on the internet?

Also, thanks for your help.

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds like you're fine.

user-inactivated  ·  1791 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awesome. Thank you again for walking through this with me. I genuinely appreciate it. :)