Re: disk geometry issues when trying to set up encrypted partition

Have you considered softraid crypto? Thanks for this independent advice. Looks like it works at the block device level which must be better. I must say that while the official openbsd documentation I've seen is second to none, there seems to be relatively little information out there on data

Re: disk geometry issues when trying to set up encrypted partition

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:28 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: search the internet and mailing lists or read the softraid, bioctl and associated man pages before stating there is a lack of information. a quick search of this mailing list for the terms disk encryption

disk geometry issues when trying to set up encrypted partition

Hi there. I'm fairly new to openbsd and I'm hoping someone with better understanding than me of how its disk handling works can help. Beginning my effort to encrypt a 300GB drive in a 64bit Ultrasparc, I followed these initial steps: 1. used disklabel to create a single slice a on the drive 2.

Re: disk geometry issues when trying to set up encrypted partition

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:46 +0100, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have no understanding of this. I've never seen a df output that tells me I'm using 13GB more space than the drive is capable of holding. I ask here because there's obviously potential for me to lose data