Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:45:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@harte-lyne.ca Subject: Re: Undo GELI Message-ID: <58006.128.135.52.6.1493142314.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <74584efb8720147d119d31fcb452a521.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <74584efb8720147d119d31fcb452a521.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, April 25, 2017 12:01 pm, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > In my frustration with getting FreeBSD installed on it I forgot where > this device was going to be placed and selected encryption for the > entire ZFS install. I now realise that simply is not going to work. > Having already extensively configured the unit I am wondering if there > is some way to undo this or if I am faced with a complete reinstall. If no one suggests anything elegant you can just boot off live DVD, mount filesystems you currently have, rsync them elsewhere, re-create filesystems, ,mount them, rsync everything back, restore boot. (I did it that way - for different reason). Good luck! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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