USB disk cryptographied with GELI and fsck

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Fri Jul 13 15:07:15 UTC 2007


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:16:25 -0000 (GMT)
"DSA - JCR" <juancr at dsa.es> wrote:

> HI all again
> 
> FreeBSD 6.2 i386
> 
> I have a problem with an USB disk that I cryptographied with GELI.
> It says that I must run fsck when I try to mount it.
> 
> I used the command
> 
> cat key1 key2 | geli -k - attach /dev/da1
> 
> when I try to mount it
> 
> mount /dev/da1.eli /usb2
> 
> I get an error saying that I need to run fsck in the disk.
> 
> Ok, How can I run fsck in this USB GELI disk?
> 
> i have used after attached the GELI disk as before
> 
> fsck /dev/da1.eli
> 
> and also
> 
> fsck -t geli /dev/da1.eli
> 
> and always I get the same
> 
> fsck doesn't recognaize the filessytem in the disk

You need to specify a filesystem, geli is not a filesystem.


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