Dislocker

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Dislocker is FUSE-based filesystem driver capable of reading NTFS BitLocker encrypted partitions.

Installation

Emerge

root #emerge --ask sys-fs/dislocker

Configuration

Files

A note on fstab

BitLocker partitions can be mount-ed using the /etc/fstab file and dislocker's long options. The line below is an example line, which has to be adapted to each case:

FILE /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 /mnt/dislocker fuse.dislocker user-password=blah,nofail 0 0

Example

With the sample /etc/fstab as above, make sure the two mount points /mnt/dislocker and /mnt/clear exist. Then:

root #mount /dev/sda2

root #mount -o loop /mnt/dislocker/dislocker-file /mnt/clear

The first mount creates the file /mnt/dislocker/dislocker-file, which is the raw unencrypted NTFS from inside the BitLocker partition. The second command mounts that NTFS partition onto /mnt/clear.

See also

• NTFS — a proprietary disk filesystem by Microsoft for Windows and Windows-based operating systems.
• FAT — filesystem originally created for use with MS-DOS (and later pre-NT Microsoft Windows).