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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

See also

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