Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:04:10 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q? " Stefan=20Krau=DF " ?=" <ilsa.gold@web.de> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem reattaching GBDE-encrypted slice Message-ID: <1670.1094130250@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:14:24 %2B0200." <1255564800@web.de>
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In message <1255564800@web.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q? "Stefan=20Krau=DF" ?= writes: >Hi all, > >like some other guys on this list (have seen this in the archive) >I have a problem with an already running GBDE-encrypted slice. I >used this slice for about 3 months without any problems. The slice >(=ad0s3a) is about 38 GB in size and about 16 GB of this were free >to use (see fdisk and bsdlabel output at the end of this mail). >Yesterday I just put about 9-10GB of data on this slice and everything >seems to work just fine. After rebooting this morning I'm not able >anymore to attache the slice to gbde. I ente r the password, no >error message or something similar appears but I get now *.bde-device >file under /dev. The lock-file is dated to somewhere in Feb 23, and >I'm absolutely sure that I entered the right password (just tried >this about 50-times ;-)). This is weird. It sounds like the master key sector has been destroyed on the disk. I've been running with GBDE on my laptop since I wrote it and I have never seen anything like this, so I am somewhat convinced that it is not a bug in GBDE, but I am also not ruling it out. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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