Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:39:01 +0100 From: Kees =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Plon=DF?= <freebsd@jeremino.homeunix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Encrypted volume - how? Message-ID: <20060122233901.2D21D43D46@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <list.freebsd.questions#43D409B8.6070704@meijome.net>
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Norberto Meijome wrote on Sunday 22 January 2006 23:39: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under > Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem > which can then be mounted in any mount point. > Why don't you use gbde. It is in your distro at /sbin/gbde Make a file with dd and format is with gbde and newfs: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1000 gbde init /dev/md0 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file gbde init /dev/md0 gbde attach /dev/md0 newfs /dev/md0.bde mount /dev/md0.bde /mnt #and you are ready to use the filesystem at /mnt #watch out for the sequence of umounting: umount /dev/md0.bde gbde detach /dev/md0 #for mounting you do: gbde attach /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0.bde /mnt -- Key-ID = 0xA6581435 E-mail address is valid but ipv6 only
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