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Subject: GELI and shutdown
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A quick question:

Is it necessary or even advisable to unmount and/or detach GELI
partitions prior to performing a halt or shutdown?

If so, what is the best way to go about automating it?

I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 system finally running on a fully encrypted disk now.

Steve