geli bugreport? fdisk error with non default sector size

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 30 11:26:47 PST 2006


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:15:37PM +0100, OxY wrote:
+> hi!
+> 
+> i tried to encrypt my root partition and the whole hard disk..
+> used this cmd to initalize geli:
+> #geli init -b -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/ad2
+> 
+> it succed, but after then i tried to use #fdisk -f part.cfg /dev/ad2.eli 
+> and it gave me an error: length must be multiple of sector size..
+> when i gave 4096,8192, so on to length the error was the same..
+> i tried to init the provdier without -s switch, then the fdisk ran without
+> any error..
+> 
+> did i do something wrong or is this a bug?

Could you give me output of:

	# diskinfo /dev/ad2 /dev/ad2.eli

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