Patch for GBDE rc-script

Tobias Roth roth at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Sep 10 03:35:03 PDT 2006


On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:22:08PM +0200, Daniel Bond wrote:
> On 14:13 Fri 08 Sep, Tobias Roth wrote:
> > 
> > How is this better/different from just adding the gbde device to
> > /etc/fstab and have it mounted along with all other filesystems?
> > 
> It says in the handbook: 
> 
> "Since encrypted file systems cannot yet be listed in /etc/fstab for automatic
> mounting, the file systems must be checked for errors by running fsck(8)
> manually before mounting."

Interesting. I have had this line in my /etc/fstab for almost a year
now and it just works(tm):

  /dev/ad0s4d.bde /home           ufs     rw        2       2

Since during startup, gbde is run before fsck, I don't see why there would
be any problems with this.

Thanks,
Tobias


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