Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:29:31 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI key from a USB disk Message-ID: <20080120182931.58aba4d2@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080120212048.J91357@dogmatix.home.rakhesh.com> References: <20080120212048.J91357@dogmatix.home.rakhesh.com>
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:25:36 +0400 (GST) Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I thought this should be easy but its not working ... :( > > I have a USB disk /dev/da0. That's got a GELI key. I also have an > external hard-disk with partitions /dev/da1s1[a-f]. All GELI > encrypted. > > What I want is that while booting up these encrypted partitions are > loaded. And their key taken from the da0 USB disk. > > I tried the obvious like mounting the USB disk in /etc/fstab and > giving it a lower pass no. than the encrypted partitions. But turns > out that doesn't work. Pass number has nothing to do with mounting order, but ... >FreeBSD tries to attach the GELI partitions > before mounting local filesystems! It has to, you have to attach a geli encrypted device before mounting the .eli device. You probably need to write a script to do the attach, fsck and mount.
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