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| author | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2017-04-24 00:25:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakob Unterwurzacher | 2017-04-24 00:25:02 +0200 |
| commit | 3409ade2723d931097560fbbe35e461553c5912c (patch) | |
| tree | c12f3eb3fa93eba352170ab597d70d6a72498ce2 /Documentation | |
| parent | f1945c4daae65074cfca8f0ab5b97ac5a50c24a0 (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/MANPAGE.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md index 656a400..c559bf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/MANPAGE.md +++ b/Documentation/MANPAGE.md @@ -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 |