Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:18:20 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q? "Stefan=20Krau=DF" ?= <ilsa.gold@web.de> To: " StefanKrauß " <ilsa.gold@web.de>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem reattaching GBDE-encrypted slice Message-ID: <1256123024@web.de>
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Hi Paul, first of all thanks for your fast reply. > >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. Is there a way to test this? Maybe some litte program to check? If it is a problem with the master key sector, is there a possibility to recover from that error? Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192
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