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Date:      Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:44:37 +0100
From:      "OxY" <oxy@field.hu>
To:        "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli bugreport? fdisk error with non default sector size
Message-ID:  <001001c6264a$f391eca0$0201a8c0@oxy>
References:  <000901c625b8$68954120$0201a8c0@oxy> <20060130192626.GA928@garage.freebsd.pl>

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i will send it a couple hours later, i am away from the test machine right 
now.
i've got one question:
is it neccesary to leave the /boot unencrypted or it has no effect that i 
get
non system disk message during boot after encrypted the whole system disk..

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:15:37PM +0100, OxY wrote:
+> hi!
+>
+> i tried to encrypt my root partition and the whole hard disk..
+> used this cmd to initalize geli:
+> #geli init -b -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/ad2
+>
+> it succed, but after then i tried to use #fdisk -f part.cfg /dev/ad2.eli
+> and it gave me an error: length must be multiple of sector size..
+> when i gave 4096,8192, so on to length the error was the same..
+> i tried to init the provdier without -s switch, then the fdisk ran 
without
+> any error..
+>
+> did i do something wrong or is this a bug?

Could you give me output of:

 # diskinfo /dev/ad2 /dev/ad2.eli

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To: "OxY" <oxy@field.hu>
Cc: <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: geli bugreport? fdisk error with non default sector size





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