From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 05:03:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA8C16A401 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:03:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from supraexpress@globaleyes.net) Received: from MX1.ll.net (mail.globaleyes.net [209.131.230.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711BB13C45E for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:03:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from supraexpress@globaleyes.net) Received: from [10.0.0.5] (unverified [209.131.253.116]) by MX1.ll.net (Vircom SMTPRS 4.35.480.11) with ESMTP id for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:51:57 -0500 X-Modus-BlackList: 209.131.253.116=OK;supraexpress@globaleyes.net=OK X-Modus-Trusted: 209.131.253.116=YES Message-ID: <462300EF.6040702@globaleyes.net> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:51:59 -0500 From: User1001 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070311) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: [Fwd: Re: Geli and fsck] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:03:15 -0000 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Geli and fsck Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:20:30 -0700 From: Eric Buchanan To: questions@freebsd.org, User1001 References: <4622CBD8.8010306@globaleyes.net> On Sunday 15 April 2007 18:05, User1001 wrote: > Nowhere in the Handbook nor the MANual pages is there any mention of how to > handle a situation where it is necessary to perform a file system check > (FSCK) on the encrypted partition ("provider"?). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I ran across this too as I just started using geli. I mount the partition with the following script. I added fsck, inspired from the gbde section of the handbook: geli attach -k /root/ad5s4f.key /dev/ad5s4f fsck -p -t ffs /dev/ad5s4f.eli mount /dev/ad5s4f.eli /backup Geli is awesome in my experience for slices and swap. HTH, Eric Buchanan