Tried to encrypt my external HDD using XFS filesystem with the default partitioner tool in KDE. Was promted to download missing packages which included cryptsetup-mkinitrd. For some reason the package is not included in openSUSE 13.2, but could see it’s available for 13.1 and Tumbleweed. I have also checked if it’s available in Packman repository.
I recently repartitioned my laptop, which means that I had to start all over.
I booted the 13.2 live Rescue CD, and used that to partition, to create encrypted LVM. Then I used the DVD installer to install opensuse in that LVM. I did not run into any problems with that. There were no missing packages that caused problems.
I used Yast partitioner for creating the encrypted LVM. I seem to recall that I created an encrypted partition first, then made an LVM out of that, then created root, home and swap volumes within that LVM.
I should note that both the live rescue CD image and the DVD installer image were on USB flash drives, rather than optical media. I doubt that made any difference.
For 13.1, the “initrd” was created with “mkinitrd” scripts.
For 13.2, the “initrd” is created by “dracut”, and the “mkinitrd” script is just a wrapper for “dracut”.
I’m guessing that “cryptsetup-mkinitrd” is part of the “mkinitrd” scripts that have been replaced by “dracut”.
Is it possible that you are doing something in a way that depends on the old method? Perhaps you triggered an odd bug where it should be telling you that you are using the wrong command but instead gave you a package error.
I’m not using LVM and on my laptop I could successfully encrypt /home partition using XFS filesystem. The problem I experience is from my desktop PC. I got curious and replicated what I previously tried to do but on my laptop and strangely it successfully downloaded the missing package and I could encrypt the HDD. Don’t know why I can’t find the package on my desktop PC so will review the enabled repositories. Also strange the package is not mentioned in openSUSE Software for openSUSE 13.2?
