From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 16:02:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB7C16A433 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:02:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CCA43D46 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:02:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8KG2INo089908; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:02:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4330328C.6070109@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:02:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frank J. Beckmann" References: <200509201734.00353.frank@barda.agala.net> In-Reply-To: <200509201734.00353.frank@barda.agala.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1091/Tue Sep 20 08:59:01 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geli encrypted memory disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:02:25 -0000 Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading to FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 from the 17th I wanted to play a bit with > geli. First try was an encryptet memory disk. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/sdisk bs=2028 count=220 > mdconfig -a -t vnode -S 2048 -f /var/sdisk -u 3 > geli init -a AES -s 2048 /dev/md3 > > Geli asks me the new password twice and then exits with the following error: > > Cannot store metadata on /dev/md3: Invalid argument. > > What am I doing wrong? Probably the bs=2028 is messing things up? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------