fsck an encrypted partition?
How does one go about this? I'm a retard and have no idea how to fsck an encrypted slice. Could someone point me in the right direction? I've searched google but it keeps coming up with FreeBSD pages on the subject of encrypted partitions. -Ben -- Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Ben, On Monday 05 September 2005 21:50, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
How does one go about this? I'm a retard and have no idea how to fsck an encrypted slice. Could someone point me in the right direction? I've searched google but it keeps coming up with FreeBSD pages on the subject of encrypted partitions.
Did you try simply running fsck? I don't usually engage in speculation, but it seems to me that only the data stored in the files of an encrypted file system is actually encrypted. The various indexing and descriptive structures, being independent of and completely separate from the actual file contents, need not be encrypted and hence should require no special treatment when it comes to running fsck or other low-level file system utilities. Please, someone, correct me if I'm wrong about this.
-Ben
Randall Schulz
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Ben,
On Monday 05 September 2005 21:50, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
How does one go about this? I'm a retard and have no idea how to fsck an encrypted slice. Could someone point me in the right direction? I've searched google but it keeps coming up with FreeBSD pages on the subject of encrypted partitions.
Did you try simply running fsck?
I don't usually engage in speculation, but it seems to me that only the data stored in the files of an encrypted file system is actually encrypted. The various indexing and descriptive structures, being independent of and completely separate from the actual file contents, need not be encrypted and hence should require no special treatment when it comes to running fsck or other low-level file system utilities.
Please, someone, correct me if I'm wrong about this.
-Ben
Randall Schulz
Hi Randall, Don't think so, If only the content of the files is encrypted, you've allready given away information: a) that a file exists b) its name c) its size and other attributes At work i played with yast-encrypted-fs. Here, at home, I used it manually, with losetup. What you see, is just one large binary block not giving away any info. What i used to do was: 1) mkdir /media/test 2) shred /dev/fd0 3) modprobe loop_fish2 4) losetup -e twofish256 /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0 5) mke2fs /dev/loop0 6) mount /dev/loop0 /media/test Returning to the subject about fsck. So I assume (!!) if you do manually losetup on your partition holding the encrypted file system, you might do the fsck against the loop-device, instead of the raw partition. Hans
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Tuesday 06 Sep 2005 13:22 samaye Gerald Humphreys alekhiit:
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Sorry for the OT: I am busy desiging a website. I would like to know how can i do it so when one clicks on a link, it changes but only a certain part of the page changes and the menue stays with out changing. The link will go to another one of "MY" Pages.
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On Tuesday 06 September 2005 03:52 am, Gerald Humphreys wrote:
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Sorry for the OT: I am busy desiging a website. I would like to know how can i do it so when one clicks on a link, it changes but only a certain part of the page changes and the menue stays with out changing. The link will go to another one of "MY" Pages.
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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:52 +0200, Gerald Humphreys wrote:
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Sorry for the OT: I am busy desiging a website. I would like to know how can i do it so when one clicks on a link, it changes but only a certain part of the page changes and the menue stays with out changing. The link will go to another one of "MY" Pages.
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