Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI

[Iantcho Vassilev]

I have such a question for GBDE/GELI-->

Because the encryption is transparent what would happen to the disk if a
power failure occur....
Does the encryption still work?




On 2/15/06, Balgansuren Batsukh <balgaa at mongol.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Alec,
>
> 17.16.1.1 Preparing the Encrypted Hard Drive
> The following example assumes that you are adding a new hard drive to your
> system that will hold a single encrypted partition. This partition will be
> mounted as /private. gbde can also be used to encrypt /home and /var/mail,
> but this requires more complex instructions which exceed the scope of this
> introduction.
>
> I read above description from FreeBSD Handbook on www.freebsd.org.
>
> That's why I thought there some way to encrypt in place partition?
>
> Balgaa
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alec Berryman" <alec at thened.net>
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI
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