On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> wrote: > > where sd3 is the softraid crypto volume. > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:38:00PM -0600, c l wrote: >> Is it possible to lock a softraid crypto volume without rebooting? >> >> It seems bioctl -d is what I want but I'm not sure. >> >> What I would like to do is unlock the volume... >> >> bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0d softraid0 >> >> Mount it, then copy some data to it, then unmount it and lock again. >> >> bioctl -d softraid0 ???? >> >> >> Cluestick anyone? >> >> > Not sure what locking means but -d delete it. > > The man page has an example of -d but it comes down to > bioctl -d sd3
If Marco doesn't know what 'locking' means I would say he just wants to make sure that the volume "gets encrypted". To the OP: the volume is always encrypted, decrypting just means that the kernel knows the key, so as soon as you unmount it it is "locked" (though you have to make sure your key is protected, of course). -Nick
