Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 03:38:10 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> To: mike@sentex.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom_eli problems Message-ID: <4A135F02.1080906@bah.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <2hl6151da28m4e9ur1h6l7rn5mckg0fut3@4ax.com> References: <4A12A466.3020202@bah.homeip.net> <2hl6151da28m4e9ur1h6l7rn5mckg0fut3@4ax.com>
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mike@sentex.net said the following on 2009-05-20 03:05: > 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 geli attach -k /root/da0.key /dev/da0 geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/da0: Invalid argument.
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