Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:57:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geli and glabel ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1604161651091.97849@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <57126AFB.9060303@bananmonarki.se> References: <57125647.9050805@bananmonarki.se> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1604161007190.46192@wonkity.com> <57126AFB.9060303@bananmonarki.se>
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > On 2016-04-16 18:08, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >>> Hello list. >>> >>> I'm wondering about glabel and geli. It seems that one can not have them >>> on the same disc. >>> >>> On swap it works nice but not on my home directory. Glabel overwrites the >>> meta data from geli >>> so the disc can not be mounted. >>> >>> Can this scenario work? How? >> >> One must be inside the other. Create a glabel device in the GELI one, then >> refer to the glabel device with /dev/label/xyz. > > Along this line? > > geli attach disc > password: > > glabel label 1213 /dev/disc > > Is that correct? No, the /dev/disc device is being used both times. geli attach disc creates a disc.eli device. Now create the label on *that*: glabel label 1213 /dev/disc.eli Maybe some ASCII art will help: ,-disc--------------. | | | ,-disc.eli----. | | | | | | | ,-1213--. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `-------' | | | | | | | `-------------' | | | `-------------------' ...well, maybe not.
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