NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

bdemount [-k keys] [-o offset] [-p password] [-r password] [-s filename] [-X extended_options] [-huvV] 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
-u: unattended mode (disables user interaction)
-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) 2011-2024, 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.