From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 23:39:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD4116A41F for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:39:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@jeremino.homeunix.net) Received: from jeremina.homeunix.net (jeremino.xs4all.nl [80.126.224.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D21D43D46 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:39:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@jeremino.homeunix.net) Received: from jeremina.homeunix.net ([10.0.0.5]) by jeremina.homeunix.net with smtp (Exim 4.42) id 1F0onV-0000I2-NB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:39:01 +0100 From: Kees =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Plon=DF?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:39:01 +0100 References: Lines: 32 Organization: Chaos MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Face: dtAN(p3{]qk\XP?#Z/w4D6D%"{t}6EFQIEv.YCM-L).KZ#M-1|:kgToZn*t!H^|(gS/A9MOa#T]^~A:sn=q[vw\n8S"QP97/MLO}L[Jq*5f+&lY_8ij@3; sbZ/>F$[*hrNX`hu/e(\%m.kc~(EV#knmO@,9$615zns'>?E_?[bWyW%-Jp=Gj?oB9P`h8ua@C0_g/!K__/'EP^i; kBAjRTa/hoV Message-Id: <20060122233901.2D21D43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Encrypted volume - how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:39:02 -0000 Norberto Meijome wrote on Sunday 22 January 2006 23:39: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under > Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem > which can then be mounted in any mount point. > Why don't you use gbde. It is in your distro at /sbin/gbde Make a file with dd and format is with gbde and newfs: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1000 gbde init /dev/md0 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file gbde init /dev/md0 gbde attach /dev/md0 newfs /dev/md0.bde mount /dev/md0.bde /mnt #and you are ready to use the filesystem at /mnt #watch out for the sequence of umounting: umount /dev/md0.bde gbde detach /dev/md0 #for mounting you do: gbde attach /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0.bde /mnt -- Key-ID = 0xA6581435 E-mail address is valid but ipv6 only