> > > > Why did you have your crypto volume as an 'i' partition? > > > Why? Because it says so in the manual, what do you mean?? > > In what manual does it say to create an 'i' partition specificaly? > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidCrypto
Does anyone know why it's "i" specificaly? Does is have anything to do with "i" being traditionaly a msdos partition? > > In that case, the image should have copies of the superblock. > Is that good? Well yes: you have definitely lost the actual superblock of the ffs filesystem you originaly created, but newfs creates copies of the superblock, pretty far out in the fs. See the -b option of fsck. > > > > > 4.5. and verified with sha512 that rsd3i is same as > > > > > /mnt/hdd/ssdimage, even > > > > > though the ssdimage on the backup drive is 19G larger in size > > > > > > > > No. If one is 19G greater that the other, they cannot have the same > > > > hash. > > > > So what exactly do you mean by the sizes? Where did you get them? > > > > > > Duh! But that's what `df -h` said! > > > > df -h is not the size of the /dev/rsd3i 'file'. > > Oh, weird No, that's not weird. What df -h reports about a filesystem is not the size of the image of that filesystem obtained with dd. So if you made a dd image of sdXi with dd, then sdXi and itd dd image will have the same hash of course, but the broken filesystem on sdXi will not have the same "size".
