bdemount — mounts a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume
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Bugs
Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website:
https://github.com/libyal/libbde/
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2011-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source
for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Description
bdemount is a utility to mount a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume
bdemount is part of the libbde package. libbde is a library to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption
(BDE) format
source is the source file.
The options are as follows:
-h shows this help
-kkeys
the full volume encryption key and tweak key formatted in base16 and separated by a : character
e.g. FKEV:TWEAK
-ooffset
specify the volume offset in bytes
-ppassword
specify the password
-rpassword
specify the recovery password
-sfilename
specify the file containing the startup key. typically this file has the extension .BEK
-u unattended mode (disables user interaction)
-v verbose output to stderr
-V print version
-Xextended_options
extended options to pass to sub system
Diagnostics
Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and
debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.
Environment
None
Examples
# bdemount -p Password /dev/sda1
bdemount 20110821
Files
None
Name
bdemount — mounts a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume
See Also
bdeinfo(1)
libbde January 21, 2022 bdemount()
Synopsis
bdemount [-kkeys] [-ooffset] [-ppassword] [-rpassword] [-sfilename] [-Xextended_options] [-huvV]
source