freebsd stable - Feb 2006 - Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI

Hello,

I installed FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE on my laptop and cvsuped to FreeBSD-STABLE. It
is working pretty much stable.

If possible I would like to migrate existing whole filesystem and partitions to
GEOM GELI based encrypted filesystem.

How can I to convert/migrate to GEOM GELI without erase/delete/reinstall
existing filesystem?

Thanks,
Balgaa

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/586-paper_Complete_Hard_Disk_Encryption.pdf

That pdf covers it pretty well.

On 2/13/06, Balgansuren Batsukh <balgaa@mongol.net>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE on my laptop and cvsuped to
> FreeBSD-STABLE. It is working pretty much stable.
>
> If possible I would like to migrate existing whole filesystem and
> partitions to GEOM GELI based encrypted filesystem.
>
> How can I to convert/migrate to GEOM GELI without erase/delete/reinstall
> existing filesystem?
>
> Thanks,
> Balgaa
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Hello,

I read whole document about your sent.

It is delete/erase existing all data on hard disk/partition.

I need to find a way to migrate existing partition/hard disk data without lose.

Is there any way to do it?

Balgaa

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:04:05 +0800
"Balgansuren Batsukh" <balgaa@mongol.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE on my laptop and cvsuped to
> FreeBSD-STABLE. It is working pretty much stable.
> 
> If possible I would like to migrate existing whole filesystem and
> partitions to GEOM GELI based encrypted filesystem.
> 
> How can I to convert/migrate to GEOM GELI without
> erase/delete/reinstall existing filesystem?
You can't. You need to backup your data / copy it $somewhere and
put it back in place after you initialized your encrypted
devices.

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