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Date:      Sat, 17 Apr 2021 22:03:49 +0200
From:      Clayton Milos <clay@milos.co.za>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?
Message-ID:  <6AE407B1-6559-4D60-86BF-68C3774F90A4@milos.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <c2905507-ea7b-a0ba-a167-8835f600f040@ingresso.co.uk>
References:  <c2905507-ea7b-a0ba-a167-8835f600f040@ingresso.co.uk>

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I encrypt the whole disk and then add it to the pool. No need to partition i=
t. If I remember correctly zfs prefers unpartitioned disks.

\\Clay

> On 17 Apr 2021, at 21:54, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFSo, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have=
 done is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and encr=
ypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli.
>=20
> But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the enc=
rypted disc, or indded just put the zpool directly onto it.
>=20
> Just wondering what the general consensus is as to the best way to go here=
 ... if there is one! :-) What do other people do ?
>=20
> -pete.
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