harddrive encryption

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Roland Smith on Tuesday, 18 January 2011:
> 
> Since you are making a backup, why not just run geli(8), newfs(8) the new
> encrpyted partition and restore the data? I don't think it is much slower, and
> it is a _lot_ safer.
> 

That makes a lot of sense.  I don't know why I had such a mental block
about running newfs(8) on the partition.  Thanks!


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