BDEMOUNT(1)

💖 bdemount() — LOCAL manual page, bestie 💖

okay so real quick before we get into it: this is the bdemount page from the LOCAL manual, and it is genuinely one of my faves. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

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

like. that's the whole job. she mounts the encrypted BDE volume. iconic behavior honestly.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

look at her. so many little flags. main character energy fr fr 🌈

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bdemount is a utility to mount a BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) encrypted volume. no cap, that's what she does.

bdemount is part of the libbde package. libbde is a library to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) format. so yeah, she's part of a whole squad 🫶

source is the source file. that's the thing you're pointing her at, bestie.

and the options are as follows 👇 (this is the part you actually came for, i know):

• -h — shows this help. lil emergency exit when you're lost 💀
• -k keys — the full volume encryption key and tweak key, formatted in base16 and separated by a : character, e.g. FKEV:TWEAK. yes the colon is mandatory, she's picky like that 💅
• -o offset — specify the volume offset in bytes
• -p password — specify the password 🔑
• -r password — specify the recovery password (the emergency one, for when you forgot the normal one 😭)
• -s filename — specify the file containing the startup key. typically this file has the extension .BEK
• -u — unattended mode (disables user interaction). she'll just do her thing, no questions asked 🧚
• -v — verbose output to stderr. she will tell you EVERYTHING she's doing
• -V — print version. gotta know which queen you're running with 👑
• -X extended_options — extended options to pass to sub system

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None

she does not care about your environment variables. nothing. zero. nada. periodt. 💀

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🎀 FILES 🎀

None

also no files. she keeps it clean ✨

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay here's the moment you've been waiting for, the actual vibe:

# bdemount -p Password /dev/sda1
bdemount 20110821

see how easy that was?? password in, device in, boom. she ate and left no crumbs 🍽️👑

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled.

⚠️ but listen — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing them, it's not you, it's the build, bestie 😭

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💜 BUGS 💜

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

like pls actually report them, don't just suffer in silence 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

these man pages were written by Joachim Metz. giving credit where credit is due, as she deserves ✨

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💅 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.

🚨 read that again — NO WARRANTY. not even for MERCHANTABILITY. not even for FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. she's free but she is NOT making promises, bestie, so back up your stuff 😭

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• bdeinfo(1) — her sibling, go say hi 🦋

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okay that's the whole page!! and a lil sign-off for the credits because she deserves it: this is from the libbde source, dated January 21, 2022 📅 and the utility version you saw in the example output was 20110821 🎀

now go mount that volume, you absolute legend 💖✨👑