On 12/11/10 21:37, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > I'm trying to set up a softraid crypto volume on top of a disk partition > /dev/wd0j (on an i386 laptop running 4.8-release). I'm using > # bioctl -c C -r 100000 -l /dev/wd0j softraid0 > to try to initially create the softraid volume. I expected this to > prompt me (twice) for a passphrase, then give me a softraid0 device > somehow accessible as /dev/sd0 or suchlike. Instead, it complains > bioctl: ioctl: Invalid argument > while my console window says > softraid0: Invalid metadata format > > What am I doing wrong? What's the right way to initially create a > softraid crypto volume on top of a disk partition? Is there a FM I > should R to be enlighted (beyond softraid(4) and bioctl(8) which I've > already read)? > > thanks, ciao, >
Sounds like bioctl is seeing something that looks like a softraid partition already in place. Easy to do, 'specially in the learning phase (create, change...ashes left behind). Did you zero the start of your wd0j partition? is wd0j of fstype RAID in disklabel? Nick.
