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Subject: Re: Geli and glabel ?
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On 2016-04-16 18:08, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I'm wondering about glabel and geli. It seems that one can not have 
>> them on the same disc.
>>
>> On swap it works nice but not on my home directory. Glabel overwrites 
>> the meta data from geli
>> so the disc can not be mounted.
>>
>> Can this scenario work? How?
>
> One must be inside the other.  Create a glabel device in the GELI one, 
> then refer to the glabel device with /dev/label/xyz.

Along this line?

geli attach disc
password:

glabel label 1213 /dev/disc

Is that correct?