Encrypted Volume and File System v1.1 Administrator's Guide

5 Administering EVFS

This chapter describes how to perform the following EVFS administrative tasks:

• Starting and stopping EVFS components. This includes the tasks described in the following

sections:

— “Starting the EVFS Subsystem” (page 80)

— “Enabling Encryption and Decryption Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 80)

— “Disabling Encryption/Decryption Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 81)

— “Stopping the EVFS Subsystem” (page 82)

— “Opening Raw Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 83)

— “Closing Raw Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 83)

• Managing EVFS keys and users. This includes the tasks described in the following sections:

— “Displaying Key IDs for an EVFS Volume” (page 84)

— “Restoring User Keys” (page 84)

— “Changing Owner Keys for an EVFS Volume” (page 86)

— “Recovering from Problems with Owner Keys” (page 87)

— “Removing Keys from an EVFS Volume” (page 87)

— “Removing User Keys or Stored Passphrase from the EVFS Key Database” (page 87)

— “Changing the Passphrase for a Key” (page 87)

— “Creating or Changing a Stored Passphrase for an Existing Key” (page 88)

• Recovering from encryption metadata (EMD) corruption. This task is described in the section

“Recovering from EMD Corruption” (page 89).

• Removing a volume from the EVFS subsystem. This task is described in “Removing a Volume

from the EVFS Subsystem” (page 90).

• Exporting and importing EVFS volumes. This includes the tasks described in the following

sections:

— “Exporting an EVFS Volume” (page 91)

— “Importing an EVFS Volume” (page 93)