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I assume there's also the option of authenticating this with a BEK file ( bekfile option), though this is not specified in the documentation. You may use recovery-password instead of user-password. Replace with the BitLocker partition (e.g. media/bitlocker/dislocker-file /media/bitlockermount auto nofail 0 0 media/bitlocker fuse.dislocker user-password=,nofail 0 0 If you want to have the BitLocker encrypted volume automatically mounted on boot, the Dislocker README has an example for mounting a BitLocker partition using /etc/fstab (though incomplete - it didn't have the dislocker-file line, which I added): Optionally mount the BitLocker-encrypted partition on boot by adding it to /etc/fstab

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How To Encrypt The Home Folder In Ubuntu 18.04.

How To Encrypt An USB Drive With VeraCrypt (Compatible With Windows, macOS and Linux).

You'll find your files in /media/bitlockermount, and not /media/bitlocker: A note that using Nautilus, you may see an extra bitlocker (/media/bitlocker) volume - ignore it. It should show up in your file manager, be available in the save as dialogs, and so on.

You should now be able to access your Windows BitLocker-encrypted volume from your Linux desktop. There is no space between -u or -p and the password, that's not a typo!

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Instead of the user password ( -uPASSWORD), you could also decrypt the BitLocker volume using the recovery password ( -pPASSWORD), using a clear key ( -c) or using the BEK file ( -f BEKFILE).

for exFAT (requires the exfat-fuse package to be installed): sudo mount -t exFAT-fuse -o loop /media/bitlocker/dislocker-file /media/bitlockermount.

for NTFS (requires ntfs-3g to be installed): sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o loop /media/bitlocker/dislocker-file /media/bitlockermount.when running the second command ( sudo mount -o loop /media/bitlocker/dislocker-file /media/bitlockermount), specify the filesystem type and it will work. Mount: /media/bitlockermount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop10, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. Important: in case you get an error saying: You can add -r to both commands to decrypt and mount it as read-only. Replace with the partition that uses BitLocker encryption (for example /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb2, etc.) which you identified in step 3, and with the user password for that BitLocker volume. Sudo mount -o loop /media/bitlocker/dislocker-file /media/bitlockermount The first command decrypts the BitLocker-encrypted filesystem, and the second command mounts it to /media/bitlockermount: Decrypt and mount the BitLocker-encrypted partition on Linux Or, you could use GParted, which shows bitlocker in the File System columns for BitLocker-encrypted partitions, so it's very easy to see the partition you're looking for:Īs shown in the screenshot, in my case the BitLocker-encrypted partition is /dev/sdb2.Ĥ. You can use sudo fdisk -l and lsblk to see all the available partitions from the command line - you'll have to figure out which uses BitLocker encryption. Identify the partition that's encrypted using BitLocker Create two folders for decrypting and mounting the BitLocker-encrypted Windows partitionģ. There's also the option of building it from source.Ģ. You may be able to find user-created packages as well, like this Arch Linux AUR package. On other Linux distributions search for Dislocker in the repositories. There's also a Dislocker PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 / Linux Mint 18.x and 17.x.

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Debian, Ubuntu (starting with Ubuntu 18.04), Linux Mint (starting with Linux Mint 19), elementary OS (5.0 Juno +), and other Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distributions: sudo apt install dislocker.

It also supports BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions (USB/FAT32 partitions). Dislocker features read/write support for BitLocker encrypted partitions on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista (AES-CBC, AES-XTS, 128 or 256 bits, with or without the Elephant diffuser). To decrypt and mount BitLocker volumes we'll use Dislocker, a tool for reading BitLocker encrypted partitions on Linux and macOS.

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It's also available for the older Windows 7 and Vista Ultimate and Enterprise.

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It covers how to decrypt and mount the BitLocker partition from the command line, as well as how to add it to /etc/fstab, so it's automatically mounted on boot.īitLocker is the logical volume encryption system included with Microsoft Windows. BitLocker is available in the Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 10, 8, and 8.1, as well as in the Education editions of Windows 10. This is a guide on how to access a BitLocker-encrypted Windows volume from Linux, useful in cases of dual-booting Windows 10, 8 or 7, and a Linux distribution.