how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread s m
hello guys, I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my file system) but do not know how to do that. is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system? i tried to

Re: Kernel asks only for the first GELI passphrase

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
Martin Laabs mailingli...@martinlaabs.de wrote: I have two partitions encrypted with GELI: ada0s2 and ada0s3. The loader (located at an unencrypted part of the harddisk) loads the kernel and the kernel asks me for the passphrase for ada0s2 to attach it afterwards. However - my root file

older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: I am a freebsd beginner. As I understood correctly there is only one ports tree which contains the most up to date (and stable) versions of programs. And there are compiled packages for the different releases, which reflect the version at the time of the release. For example the ports

Re: older version of programs in freebsd

2012-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:48:49 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: I am a freebsd beginner. As I understood correctly there is only one ports tree which contains the most up to date (and stable) versions of programs. And there are compiled packages for the different releases, which reflect

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, David Noel wrote: Apologies for the spam and the hastily written closing paragraph. I was hoping to end with a heartwarming anecdote that would leave the reader with no choice but to agree that anonymous ssh+svn access would benefit us all. AnonCVS is still of course an

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread Fabian Keil
s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: I backed up my freeBSD 8.2 box by dump command and now want to restore this dump file on an encrypted file system (i used geli to encrypt my file system) but do not know how to do that. is there any way or command to restore an unencrypted dump on an

Considering purchase off SSD!

2012-09-29 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hello list. I'm considering to purchase a SSD. The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if anyone has experience with SSD's and FreeBSD (9.1 is my plan). Just to complicate

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-29 Thread s m
thanks Fabian for your answer. i don't know what exactly information is needed but i tell what i did up to now. i have two partition, one is encrypted and the other one is not. the unencrypted partition has boot folder. when i copy FreeBSD base system files, FreeBSD start up correctly but when i

Re: Considering purchase off SSD!

2012-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm considering to purchase a SSD. The one I have in mind for the moment is this one. Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC512D 512GB I'm not going for a top of the line disk but I would like to ask if anyone has experience with SSD's and FreeBSD (9.1 is my

Re: File permissions - how to lock a directory

2012-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: I have a particularly thorny problem I'm trying to solve, but I'll bet FreeBSD has a solution. I'm running a webserver using suphp. It's very picky about permissions. It wants the web server user (www) to be the

Re: 8.3-R cannot mount non-BSD burned DVD

2012-09-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Jin Guojun jguo...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Searched bug report, but did not find related report. Does anyone have seen this problem? If so, is any working around for this problem? I ran 8.3 but did not have this problem. But I must admit that the

system hangs during dump + compress usb2-drive

2012-09-29 Thread Jin Guojun
In FreeBSD 8.3 release (possibly in earlier release), dump a file system has 2-3GB or more content can cause system hang in a specific case (pipe to compression): dump FS-on-SATA-drive usb-drive OK dump FS-on-SATA-drive | anyCompress sata-drive OK mv a-large-dump-file