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authorJakob Unterwurzacher2017-04-24 00:25:02 +0200
committerJakob Unterwurzacher2017-04-24 00:25:02 +0200
commit3409ade2723d931097560fbbe35e461553c5912c (patch)
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parentf1945c4daae65074cfca8f0ab5b97ac5a50c24a0 (diff)
forcedecode: tighten checks
...and fix a few golint issues and print a scary warning message on mount. Also, force the fs to ro,noexec.
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@@ -67,11 +67,16 @@ failing with an IO error. Warning messages are still printed to syslog if corrup
files are encountered.
It can be useful to recover files from disks with bad sectors or other corrupted
media. It shall not be used if the origin of corruption is unknown, specially
-if you want to run executable files. For corrupted media, note that you probably want
-to use dd_rescue(1) instead.
-This option has no effect in reverse mode. It requires gocryptfs to be compiled with openssl
+if you want to run executable files.
+
+For corrupted media, note that you probably want to use dd_rescue(1)
+instead, which will recover all but the corrupted 4kB block.
+
+This option makes no sense in reverse mode. It requires gocryptfs to be compiled with openssl
support and implies -openssl true. Because of this, it is not compatible with -aessiv,
-that uses built-in Go crpyto.
+that uses built-in Go crypto.
+
+Setting this option forces the filesystem to read-only and noexec.
#### -fsname string
Override the filesystem name (first column in df -T). Can also be