NAME¶

bdemount — mounts a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume

SYNOPSIS¶

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

-k keys

the full volume encryption key and tweak key formatted in base16 and separated by a : character e.g. FKEV:TWEAK

-o offset

specify the volume offset in bytes

-p password

specify the password

-r password

specify the recovery password

-s filename

specify the file containing the startup key. typically this file has the extension .BEK

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

-X extended_options

extended options to pass to sub system

ENVIRONMENT¶

None

FILES¶

None

EXAMPLES¶

# bdemount -p Password /dev/sda1
bdemount 20110821

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.

BUGS¶

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libbde/

AUTHOR¶

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2011-2019, 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.

SEE ALSO¶

bdeinfo(1)