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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Can I read a MacOSX FileVault disk from Linux?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:49
Message-Id: 20111110192518.GD17332@crowfix.com
1 I have a 5 year old Mac OS X laptop which died last night -- no lights, nothing, as if the battery
2 and AC line were disconnected. There's nothing on it which is a disaster to lose, but there are
3 some things I'd like to get off. Is it possible to plug the drive into a SATA (?) connector on a
4 Linux system and mount it with some encryption loopback setup to get into my FileVault-protcted home
5 dir?
6
7 I do have access to a completely different Mac, and I could probably swap drives, boot, get the data
8 I want, shut down, and restore drives, but I have no idea how well that would work.
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12 Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
13 GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933
14 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can I read a MacOSX FileVault disk from Linux? "马迪" <1991md@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I read a MacOSX FileVault disk from Linux? James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com>