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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
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Subject: Re: Geli and glabel ?
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote:

>
>
> On 2016-04-16 18:08, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello list.
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering about glabel and geli. It seems that one can not have them 
>>> on the same disc.
>>> 
>>> On swap it works nice but not on my home directory. Glabel overwrites the 
>>> meta data from geli
>>> so the disc can not be mounted.
>>> 
>>> Can this scenario work? How?
>> 
>> One must be inside the other.  Create a glabel device in the GELI one, then 
>> refer to the glabel device with /dev/label/xyz.
>
> Along this line?
>
> geli attach disc
> password:
>
> glabel label 1213 /dev/disc
>
> Is that correct?

No, the /dev/disc device is being used both times.

   geli attach disc

creates a disc.eli device.  Now create the label on *that*:

   glabel label 1213 /dev/disc.eli

Maybe some ASCII art will help:

   ,-disc--------------.
   |                   |
   |  ,-disc.eli----.  |
   |  |             |  |
   |  |  ,-1213--.  |  |
   |  |  |       |  |  |
   |  |  |       |  |  |
   |  |  `-------'  |  |
   |  |             |  |
   |  `-------------'  |
   |                   |
   `-------------------'

...well, maybe not.