Geom_eli problems
Bernt Hansson
bernt at bah.homeip.net
Wed May 20 01:38:36 UTC 2009
mike at sentex.net said the following on 2009-05-20 03:05:
> On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:21:58 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
> you wrote:
>
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I'm running this;
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009
>> root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>>
>> and I'm trying to encrypt my usb memory with geli.
>>
>> But it does not work according to the handbook or this homepage
>> http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml#cryptpart
>>
>> This works
>>
>> geli init -s 4096 -l 256 /dev/da0
>> Enter new passphrase:
>> Reenter new passphrase:
>
>
> Hi,
> Try with the key example from the manpage
>
> dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/disk.key bs=64 count=1
> geli init -s 4096 -K /tmp/disk.key /dev/da0
> Enter new passphrase:
> Reenter new passphrase:
> # geli attach -k /tmp/disk.key /dev/da0
> Enter passphrase:
> # newfs /dev/da0.eli
> # mount /dev/da0.eli /mnt
> ...
> # umount /mnt
> # geli detach da0.eli
geli attach -k /root/da0.key /dev/da0
geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/da0: Invalid argument.
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