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On 10 November 2011 19:25, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have a 5 year old Mac OS X laptop which died last night -- no lights, nothing, as if the battery |
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> and AC line were disconnected. There's nothing on it which is a disaster to lose, but there are |
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> some things I'd like to get off. Is it possible to plug the drive into a SATA (?) connector on a |
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> Linux system and mount it with some encryption loopback setup to get into my FileVault-protcted home |
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> dir? |
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> I do have access to a completely different Mac, and I could probably swap drives, boot, get the data |
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> I want, shut down, and restore drives, but I have no idea how well that would work. |
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> Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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> GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 |
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> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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From a casual read through the wiki page on Filevault, you should be |
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able to get it up and running provided you still have the Master |
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password. In fact, the age of the install may be an advantage - the |
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encryption schemes are well understood, and some versions even have |
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cryptographic weaknesses. |
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If you are lucky enough to have the 'Sparse Image' variant (from |
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OS10.4), it may even be possible to recover the majority ov the |
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content, even if some of it is damaged through disk failure (although |
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your description sounds more like motherboard / power failure. |
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As to whether someone has written mount_filevault or not, I've no |
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idea. Happy googling! |