Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:04:05 +0800
"Balgansuren Batsukh" <balgaa at mongol.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE on my laptop and cvsuped to
> FreeBSD-STABLE. It is working pretty much stable.
> 
> If possible I would like to migrate existing whole filesystem and
> partitions to GEOM GELI based encrypted filesystem.
> 
> How can I to convert/migrate to GEOM GELI without
> erase/delete/reinstall existing filesystem?

You can't. You need to backup your data / copy it $somewhere and
put it back in place after you initialized your encrypted
devices.

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