Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:54:53 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations Message-ID: <ade45ae91001221754n5dab905et695f52b9c27bf977@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201001140731.o0E7VtQ0018243@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <201001140731.o0E7VtQ0018243@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On 1/14/10, Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > I used "glabel label" to label each of the file systems I have on > external > disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to "geli attach" any > of > the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is > there > a way to get this to work? Or have I just lost everything in the encrypted > file systems? > > hellas# geli attach -k work.key /dev/label/work > geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/label/work: Invalid argument. > hellas# ls -lgF /dev/label/ > total 0 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 192 Jan 14 00:47 archives > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 191 Jan 14 00:47 backupsi > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 182 Jan 14 00:47 backupsl > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 166 Jan 14 00:47 backupss > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 179 Jan 14 00:47 sec > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 161 Jan 14 00:47 usrobj > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 184 Jan 14 00:47 usrports > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 186 Jan 14 00:47 vboxdisk > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 181 Jan 14 00:47 work > hellas# > > Any help in recovering the lost data would be deeply appreciated. If > that cannot be done, then at least knowing that would keep me from wasting > further time on it. Thanks much. Are you aware that tunefs -L will label a device? It is stored as part of the filesystem, instead as a GEOM metadata. So you should be able to get both labeling (/dev/ufs/labelname) and GELI as you are asking for. As for recovering your data, I see other helpful posts in this thread, as I have no additional helpful information to recommend.
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