Encryption (new user)
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Rustalt · 2020-10-05 10:58

Hi. I am dual booting my pc and want to encrypt freebsd’s partitions.
How would i go about doing that? Thanks.

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cosmogfd · 2020-10-05 11:00

This looks like it could be useful?
[https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/setting-up-a-
freebsdopenbsd-dual-boot-with-full-disk-
encryption/](https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/setting-up-a-
freebsdopenbsd-dual-boot-with-full-disk-encryption/)

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Rustalt · 2020-10-05 11:01

Thanks

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fongaboo · 2020-10-05 12:08

Nowadays the standard installer should have an option for ZFS with
GELI. That will give you full-disk encryption.

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Rustalt · 2020-10-05 15:02

If I encrypt the entire disk from freebsd will that be a problem for
my linux? (its a dual-booted computer)
When configuring the os i chose the automatic partitioning, so I dont
have zfs. Any other options?

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nomad-fr · 2020-10-05 19:08

zfs native encryption is not yet supported under FreeBSD see
http://build.zfsonlinux.org/zfs-features.html

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caledooper · 2020-10-05 20:10

Jeebus christmas, I hope we're able to one day have all those flags on
all [meaningful] platforms.

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nomad-fr · 2020-10-06 05:04

For exemple I have several FreeBSD data holder and backup servers, I'm
going to migrate all my user laptop setup to Xubuntu almost Full
Encryted https://lab.neuronfarm.net/nomad/wiki-
system/wiki/Ubuntu-20.04-encrypt-ZFS-install but can't zfs send my
encrypted pool to FreeBSD. So I must wait to use zfs send for laptop
backup and keep them unencrypted with rsync for the moment.

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edthesmokebeard · 2020-10-13 16:27

Why?    Depending on what you're doing it for there might be options.