Patch for GBDE rc-script

Daniel Bond db at danielbond.org
Mon Sep 11 09:23:01 PDT 2006


On 12:34 Sun 10 Sep, Tobias Roth wrote:
> 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

Maybee this should be updated in the handbook then? (Along with the placement
for the lockfile, since GBDE defaultly looks in /etc/<partition>.lock (not: /etc/gbde/<partition>))

I could do it if I knew how.

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