NAME

bdemountmounts a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume

SYNOPSIS

bdemount [-k keys] [-o offset] [-p password] [-r password] [-s filename] [-X extended_options] [-hvV] source

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 <[email protected]> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libbde/

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. Copyright (C) 2011-2019, Joachim Metz <[email protected]>. 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)

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