Re: Why overwrite first megabyte of encrypted disk?

2016-05-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/25/16 13:34, Robert Campbell wrote: > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid > > In the FAQ > Disk Setup > Full Disk Encryption section there are these > lines after the encrypted drive has been set up: > >> As in the previous example, we'll overwrite the first megabyte of our >

Re: Why overwrite first megabyte of encrypted disk?

2016-05-25 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Theo Buehler wrote: > From http://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.4: I think you meant http://man.openbsd.org/bioctl.8 Thanks, -- Raul

Re: Why overwrite first megabyte of encrypted disk?

2016-05-25 Thread Theo Buehler
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 07:35:04PM +0200, Robert Campbell wrote: > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid > > In the FAQ > Disk Setup > Full Disk Encryption section there are these > lines after the encrypted drive has been set up: > > > As in the previous example, we'll overwrite the

Why overwrite first megabyte of encrypted disk?

2016-05-25 Thread Robert Campbell
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraid In the FAQ > Disk Setup > Full Disk Encryption section there are these lines after the encrypted drive has been set up: > As in the previous example, we'll overwrite the first megabyte of our new pseudo-device. > > # dd if=/dev/zero