bdemount1

Usage

Overview

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.