From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Apr 26 07:55:47 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE99D51134 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B45DABF for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:55:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A3960C84 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1vKmTINPbjfL for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "imap.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA HLL ISSUER 01" (not verified)) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (verified OK)) by inet07.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 768C78A34E for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A2260676 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SnsLiMGmgUMB for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Greylist: delayed 1865 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:39 EDT Received: from bede.home.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:55:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v3Q7ORMX054130; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:24:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: Undo GELI To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu, byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@harte-lyne.ca References: <74584efb8720147d119d31fcb452a521.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <58006.128.135.52.6.1493142314.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <135038b5-80d9-83fa-4f1f-70bc78c5e7f7@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:24:27 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <58006.128.135.52.6.1493142314.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:55:47 -0000 On 25/04/2017 18:45, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Tue, April 25, 2017 12:01 pm, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: >> In my frustration with getting FreeBSD installed on it I forgot where >> this device was going to be placed and selected encryption for the >> entire ZFS install. I now realise that simply is not going to work. >> Having already extensively configured the unit I am wondering if there >> is some way to undo this or if I am faced with a complete reinstall. > > If no one suggests anything elegant you can just boot off live DVD, mount > filesystems you currently have, rsync them elsewhere, re-create > filesystems, ,mount them, rsync everything back, restore boot. (I did it > that way - for different reason). If you want the final result to be zfs, but without geli underneath, rather than using rsync, use "zfs send -R" to create a replica stream and store it on spare device, recreate the zpool over unencrypted disk(s), and "zfs recv" into the zpool. That way you get all the file systems back as you created them, with the same mount points, and only have to manually recreate the zpool. -- Unicode allows even more stupid password rules. Your password must contain at least one of each of: upper case letter, lower case letter, title case letter, digit, currency symbol, punctuation character, ideogram, box character, emoji, Middle Kingdom hieroglyph, ...