Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:05:44 -0400 From: mike@sentex.net To: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom_eli problems Message-ID: <2hl6151da28m4e9ur1h6l7rn5mckg0fut3@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <4A12A466.3020202@bah.homeip.net> References: <4A12A466.3020202@bah.homeip.net>
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:21:58 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hello list. > >I'm running this; > >FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 > root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > >and I'm trying to encrypt my usb memory with geli. > >But it does not work according to the handbook or this homepage >http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml#cryptpart > >This works > >geli init -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/da0 >Enter new passphrase: >Reenter new passphrase: Hi, Try with the key example from the manpage dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/disk.key bs=64 count=1 geli init -s 4096 -K /tmp/disk.key /dev/da0 Enter new passphrase: Reenter new passphrase: # geli attach -k /tmp/disk.key /dev/da0 Enter passphrase: # newfs /dev/da0.eli # mount /dev/da0.eli /mnt ... # umount /mnt # geli detach da0.eli ---Mikehelp
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