From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 15:58:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB57106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:58:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ac@belngo.info) Received: from mail-bw0-f214.google.com (mail-bw0-f214.google.com [209.85.218.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8E38FC13 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so145669bwz.31 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:58:28 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.144.86 with SMTP id y22mr901123bku.43.1264089508246; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:58:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5709ce311001210622u43233cacw9646cc0306a6b907@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210712k7bc0584m658ce091813f4585@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:58:28 +0200 Message-ID: <5709ce311001210758v8845fft1f6036b4d0a44f24@mail.gmail.com> From: Alaksiej C To: BSD Life Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-geom Subject: Re: geli recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:58:30 -0000 Actually, I you can do whatever you want to do with this _empty_ disk. If you have no metadata backup then there's no data, just rubbish. I advice you to either partition your drive before recreation of geli container or to put fake MBR. It will protect you from those motherboards, which creates HPA. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, BSD Life wrote: > 2010/1/21 Alaksiej C > >> Generally, yes, "geli restore" would save you. Of course, BIOS >> firmware could take enough space to harm not only metadata, but some >> data also, but not much. >> >> As Ivan Voras mentioned, geli in FreeBSD8 does metadata backup >> automatically by default, so check your /var/backups/ >> > > =A0I think it was initialized with 7.0 or stable between 7.0 and 7.1, > /var/backup is empty. > And Ivan, do you mean i should reinit it? > > Thanks for your help > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >