From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 18:45:27 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353AD16A41B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37A413C458 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:45:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 88724 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Oct 2007 18:45:26 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 21.105739 secs); 18 Oct 2007 18:45:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 18 Oct 2007 18:45:04 -0000 Message-ID: <4717A9B2.2050709@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:45:06 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: GELI and shutdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:45:27 -0000 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