CRYPTDISKS_START(8)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, listen up — cryptdisks_start is a lil wrapper around cryptsetup that parses /etc/crypttab for you. that's the whole gig. she's giving helpful middle-manager energy and honestly? we stan. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cryptdisks_start <name>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so cryptdisks_start is literally a wrapper around cryptsetup that reads through /etc/crypttab — exactly the same way the initscript /etc/init.d/cryptdisks does — and then starts up the dm-crypt mapping that matches <name>. that's it, that's the plot. you give her a name, she goes and wakes up the right encrypted thing. no cap. 🫶

⚠️ bestie, important!! this wrapper passes --key-file=- to cryptsetup, which means if any key file you reference has a passphrase in it, that passphrase must not be followed by a newline character. like, at all. not even one. she will not vibe with that newline. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• cryptdisks_stop(8)
• cryptsetup(8)
• crypttab(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Jonas Meurer <mejo@debian.org> in December 2007. iconic of him, honestly. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 — brought to you by cryptsetup 2:2.8.7-1ubunt, dated 2026-09-12. periodt. 🎀✨