On Mon 2016-08-29 12:49:06, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2016-08-29 12:40:24, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > On Monday, August 29, 2016 12:08:16 PM CEST Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > You encrypt a directory -- sounds easy, right? Support is in 4.4 > > > kernel, my machines run newer kernels than that. Encrypting root would > > > be hard, but encrypting parts of data partition should be easy. > > > > > > Ok, lets follow howto... Need to do tune2fs. Right. Aha, still does > > > not work, looks like I'll need to reboot. > > > > > > Hmm. Will not boot. Grub no longer recognizes my /data partition, and > > > that's where new kernels are. Old kernels are in /boot, but those are > > > now useless. Lets copy new kernel on machine using USB stick. Does not > > > boot. Fun. > > > > > > tune2fs on root filesystem is useless, as it is too old. New one > > > is ... on the data partition. Right. Ok, lets bring newer version of > > > tune2fs in. "encryption" feature can not be cleared. > > > > > > Argh! Come on, I did not even create single encrypted directory on the > > > partition. I want the damn bit to go off, so I can go back to working > > > configuration. "Old kernels can not read encrypted files" sounds ok, > > > but "old kernels can not mount filesystem at all" is not acceptable > > > here :-(. > > > > > > Is there way to go back? Restoring 400GB from backups would not be fun > > > > I have not tried it myself, but this should work? > > > > debugfs -w -R "feature -encrypt" /dev/device > > > > > > (assuming the feature flag is called "encrypt") > > Yes, I figured out debugfs could be used to do this. (But thanks for > the command line). If all tunefs did was to set the bit, this is > safe. Is it? > > [I guess I can do fsck -fn, debugfs, fsck -fn; if it passes I should > be safe, if it does not I can turn +encrypt back on, and would be no > worse than I'm now. Hmm?] Ok, done, fsck passed, I'm back to previous configuration. I guess I was too optimistic. Using ext4 encryption would require at least new e2fsprogs at the root filesystem, which was something I was hoping to avoid. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
