Protecting filesystems and swap space with Cryptmount
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Cryptmount allows you to encrypt both your filesystems and swap space. An encrypted filesystem can be stored on a block device like a normal filesystem -- for example, using /dev/sda2 -- or inside a normal file in another filesystem. This later method is especially handy when you would like to work with an encrypted filesystem without changing your partition tables or working with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Cryptmount can also encrypt your swap space so that information from an encrypted filesystem is not inadvertently made less secure by the Linux kernel swapping a process out to disk.
Hi ,
I Would like to know the space allocated by adding up all the allocated space to group of filesystems ..
example ,
df -h|grep /db | awk '{ print $4 }' ---> giving me all the used space on the filesystem but need to know the total used space by adding up all the values (3 Replies)
CENT OS 5.8 server running with a huge java application which uses up all my ram (4GB) and requires excess of atleast 2GB.But the swap is not getting used up((8GB) of swap space left unused) leading a wierd error and stopping application to stop working.
Any one here dealt with the same kind of... (2 Replies)
Hi,
i have done a blunder here, i increased the swap space on Xen5.6 server machine using below steps :-
1056 dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/myswapfile bs=1M count=1024
1057 ls -l /root/myswapfile
1058 chmod 600 /root/myswapfile
1059 mkswap /root/myswapfile
1060 swapon /root/myswapfile
... (1 Reply)
Could someone please explain how you know how much swap space you have on your system. See below:
# swap -s
total: 8225048k bytes allocated + 4863488k reserved = 13088536k used, 4008032k available
# swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 32,25 16... (2 Replies)
I am trying to copy a filesystem from one server to another using rsync over the WAN. As far as I can tell, the two filesystems are identical but for some reason I cannot copy the last file because I keep running out of space.
SERVER 1:
mkfs -m <lvol>
mkfs -F vxfs -o... (1 Reply)
FSTAB(5) File Formats Manual FSTAB(5)NAME
fstab - static information about the filesystems
SYNOPSIS
#include <fstab.h>
DESCRIPTION
The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not written; it is the
duty of the system administrator to properly create and maintain this file. Each filesystem is described on a separate line; fields on
each line are separated by tabs or spaces. The order of records in fstab is important because fsck(8), mount(8), and umount(8) sequen-
tially iterate through fstab doing their thing.
The first field, fs_spec, describes the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted. For filesystems of type ufs, the special
file name is the block special file name, and not the character special file name. If a program needs the character special file name, the
program must create it by appending a ``r'' after the last ``/'' in the special file name.
The second field, fs_file, describes the mount point for the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be specified as ``none''.
The third field, fs_vfstype, describes the type of the filesystem. The system currently supports only two types of filesystems:
ufs a local UNIX filesystem
swap a disk partition to be used for swapping
The fourth field, fs_mntops, describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. It is formatted as a comma separated list of
options. It contains at least the type of mount (see fs_type below) plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type.
If the option ``quotas'' is specified, the filesystem is automatically processed by the quotacheck(8) command, and user disk quotas are
enabled with quotaon(8). Filesystem quotas are maintained in the file named quotas located at the root of the associated filesystem. This
restriction on the location of the quotas file is needlessly imposed by the kernel but may be lifted in the future. Thus, if the user
quota file for /tmp is stored in /var/quotas/tmp.user, this location can be specified as:
quotas=/var/quotas/tmp.user
The type of the mount is extracted from the fs_mntops field and stored separately in the fs_type field (it is not deleted from the
fs_mntops field). If fs_type is ``rw'' or ``ro'' then the filesystem whose name is given in the fs_file field is normally mounted read-
write or read-only on the specified special file. If fs_type is ``sw'' then the special file is made available as a piece of swap space by
the swapon(8) command at the end of the system reboot procedure. The fields other than fs_spec and fs_type are unused. If fs_type is
specified as ``xx'' the entry is ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are currently unused.
The fifth field, fs_freq, is used for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If the
fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump(8) will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.
The sixth field, fs_passno, is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The
root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive
will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the
hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck(8) will assume that the filesystem does not need
to be checked.
#define FSTAB_RW "rw" /* read-write device */
#define FSTAB_RO "ro" /* read-only device */
#define FSTAB_SW "sw" /* swap device */
#define FSTAB_XX "xx" /* ignore totally */
struct fstab {
char *fs_spec; /* block special device name */
char *fs_file; /* filesystem path prefix */
char *fs_vfstype; /* type of filesystem */
char *fs_mntops; /* comma separated mount options */
char *fs_type; /* rw, ro, sw, or xx */
int fs_freq; /* dump frequency, in days */
int fs_passno; /* pass number on parallel dump */
};
The proper way to read records from fstab is to use the routines getfsent(3), getfsspec(3), getfstype(3), and getfsfile(3).
FILES
/etc/fstab The file fstab resides in /etc.
SEE ALSO getfsent(3)HISTORY
The fstab file format appeared in 4.0BSD.
4.4 Berkeley Distribution January 15, 1996 FSTAB(5)