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Subject: Re: Is geli detectable?
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:27:23 +0100
Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote:

> * Greg Rivers (gcr@tharned.org) wrote:
> >  You can prove this by running `geli dump
> > <provider>` when the provider is not attached (decrypted), or by
> > otherwise inspecting the last sector.
> 
> Yup, this is how the .eli devices magic into existance on boot/attach.
> ...
> Similarly I expect you could encrypt the metadata block itself, again
> forgoing auto-detection in favour of manually mounting; 

geli devices are found at boot by looking for devices that end in .eli
in fstab.