gbde and geli - differences

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:13:21AM +0000, RW wrote:
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> > > > i need both encrypted partition and encrypted copies/DVDs.
> > > 
> > > I'd be interested if anyone has a method for creating encrypted DVDs
> > > that still works. 
> > 
> > You can use a UFS filesystem on a DVD. In short:
> > - create an file with random characters the size of a DVD.
> > - use that as a vnode backed memory disk with mdconfig.
> > - initialize and attach that with geli.
> > - create a new filesystem on the geli device
> > - mount it.
> 
> But how do you put that on a DVD-R or DVD+R?

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$HOME/backupDVD.img

Roland
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