Re: encrypting existing partitions/disks

From: Ozgur Ozdemircili (ozgur.ozdemircili_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/29/05

  • Next message: Ronnel P. Maglasang: "Re: encrypting existing partitions/disks" 
    To: "Ronnel P. Maglasang" <rmaglasang@infoweapons.com>, "freebsd-geom" <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-security" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:18:23 +0300

    Did you check out
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.h
    tml ?
    It clearly explains everything.
    Cheers
    Ozgur Ozdemircili

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Ronnel P. Maglasang" <rmaglasang@infoweapons.com>
    To: "freebsd-geom" <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>; "freebsd-security"
    <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
    Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:52 AM
    Subject: encrypting existing partitions/disks

    > Hello,
    >
    > Has anyone wrote a how-to or a guick guide on how
    > to encrypt an existing partition/disk using gbde?
    > I've tried to search in the net but i cudn't find
    > any. Is it possible to just move the existing data
    > on my disk, cleanup the disk and encrypt using gbde,
    > attach to the system, then move back the data to the now
    > encrypted disk.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > - ronnel
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