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PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:38 pm    Post subject: HOWTO Hibernation with custom initrd, luks and swapfile Reply with quote

Hello,

It took me a while to figure out how to succesfully thaw (hibernate) from a swapfile on an encrypted root partition with a custom initramfs; i couldnt find a complete set of instructions anywhere.

The hard part was finding the instructions how to change the init file for the initramfs (i dont use genkernel).
This website was the key for me.

We need to get the Major:Minor of the blockdevice the swapfile resides on, and then echo this to /sys/power/resume

Here is the relevant part of my /usr/src/initramfs/init
Code:
#msg 'Getting the resume partition from kernel commandline options..'
for x in `cat /proc/cmdline`
    do
       case ${x} in
            resume=*) RESUMEDEV=${x#resume=} ;;
            *) continue ;;
       esac
    done
# Getting "dm-0" (the file the resumeparition links to, for me this is /dev/dm-0, and then stripping it of /dev/)
RESUMEDEV=$(readlink -f ${RESUMEDEV} | awk -F '/' '{ print $3 }')
#msg 'Getting Major/Minor number of resume device'
RESMAJMIN=$(cat /sys/class/block/${RESUMEDEV}/dev)


And then just before switchting root:
Code:
msg "Echo-ing $RESMAJMIN to /sys/power/resume (so we can thaw-hibernate)"
echo $RESMAJMIN > /sys/power/resume


My kernel line in grub:
Code:
kernel /boot/kernel-3.9.4-rev3 cryptdevice=/dev/sda5:root resume=/dev/mapper/root resume_offset=3115008

To get the resume_offset look at the link i posted above.

Hopefully this helps somebody ;)


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't the resume offset used only by kernel? I am pretty sure you don't have to parse it in script at all. I am almost 100% sure that I used swapfile and didn't needed to echo it.

also nice way to get the major:minor, I use stat %T %t and printf to convert it to decimal and not sure if I had reason to do it as-is.

anyway, why you parse the offset, you do echo it somewhere? I used tuxonice, uswsusp and swsusp for a long time, always with encrypted devices and quite often with swap files with no problems.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hehe yeah resume offset is indeed not needed in initrd, thats why the lines are commented out...
maybe i shouldve just deleted those lines (?)
actually i will delete this
Code:
# We dont seem to need to resume offset in ramfs/initrd having it on the kernel-cmdline is enough
#            resume_offset=*) RESOFFSET=${x#resume_offset=} ;; 

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