Encrypting raid5 volume with geli

Ulf Lilleengen ulf.lilleengen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 27 06:15:17 PST 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Michael Jung <
mikej at paymentallianceintl.com> wrote:

> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Dec 19 09:04:23 EST 2008
>
> With the new patch I can create UFS system and mount.
>
> I can also:
>
> (root at charon) /etc# geli init -P -K /root/test.key /dev/gvinum/test
>
> But when I try to attach it:
>
> (root at charon) /etc# geli attach -p -k /root/test.key /dev/gvinum/test
> (root at charon) /etc# mount /dev/gvinum/test.eli /mnt
> mount: /dev/gvinum/test.eli : Invalid argument
> (root at charon) /etc#


Uhm, haven't you forgotten to do a newfs /dev/gvinum/test.eli before
mounting it? It works fine for me when doing that first.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen


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