Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:58:28 +0200 From: Alaksiej C <ac@belngo.info> To: BSD Life <bsd4life@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-geom <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: geli recovery Message-ID: <5709ce311001210758v8845fft1f6036b4d0a44f24@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e0df4dc61001210717o10e3d1e4l34c31f7d3ada5c61@mail.gmail.com> References: <e0df4dc61001210516n2e22a92dwf2b8662f0e973e5@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210622u43233cacw9646cc0306a6b907@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210629r111bd679o2f2af99a01814db8@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210631q6378400alb12f74013c97b58@mail.gmail.com> <5709ce311001210712k7bc0584m658ce091813f4585@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210717o10e3d1e4l34c31f7d3ada5c61@mail.gmail.com>
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Actually, I you can do whatever you want to do with this _empty_ disk. If you have no metadata backup then there's no data, just rubbish. I advice you to either partition your drive before recreation of geli container or to put fake MBR. It will protect you from those motherboards, which creates HPA. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, BSD Life <bsd4life@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2010/1/21 Alaksiej C <ac@belngo.info> > >> Generally, yes, "geli restore" would save you. Of course, BIOS >> firmware could take enough space to harm not only metadata, but some >> data also, but not much. >> >> As Ivan Voras mentioned, geli in FreeBSD8 does metadata backup >> automatically by default, so check your /var/backups/ >> > > =A0I think it was initialized with 7.0 or stable between 7.0 and 7.1, > /var/backup is empty. > And Ivan, do you mean i should reinit it? > > Thanks for your help > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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