From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 21 22:48:22 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A753F42101D for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "www.holgerdanske.com", Issuer "www.holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BwKNP2bK3z44ch for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:48:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 (99-100-19-101.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLSv1.3:Kx=any:Au=any:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:48:18 -0700 Subject: Re: Create new geli file system using existing key To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200921142916.208e0c2a@gumby.homeunix.com> From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:48:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BwKNP2bK3z44ch X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dpchrist@holgerdanske.com has no SPF policy when checking 2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b) smtp.mailfrom=dpchrist@holgerdanske.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.81 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.71)[0.710]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.47)[0.471]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.73)[0.732]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[holgerdanske.com]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:2001:470::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:48:22 -0000 On 2020-09-21 10:44, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM RW via freebsd-questions < > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:55:11 -0700 >> David Christensen wrote: >> >> >>> I do not believe you need (or want) to have identical GELI metadata >>> on the USB hard disk drives. I believe you just need to specify the >>> same keyfile when you create each GELI provider. >> >> I think the OP realises that he was a bit confused when asking the >> original question. >> > Yes, I was. After almost a quarter century using FreeBSD, it's a bit > embarrassing to admit to my confusion. It's something I did back just after > geli came into existence and have not really paid attention to since a bit > before I retired almost a decade ago. It turns out to have been a trivial > issue caused by confusion from not adequately understanding the keying > information in the geli man page. NP. Computers are a tetration of complexity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration It is humanly impossible to "know it all", and "it all" is continuously growing. Attempting to help people work through their computer issues is a good way to "keep up" and to learn of new possibilities. David