From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ROaGv-0001iV-39 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8ECDE21C0B5; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0AD21C05E for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:25:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9387 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2011 19:24:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 10 Nov 2011 19:24:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1389 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Nov 2011 19:25:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:25:18 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Can I read a MacOSX FileVault disk from Linux? Message-ID: <20111110192518.GD17332@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 3adebfb8-797e-4117-b86a-be8f49c83c3c X-Archives-Hash: 67459ad3aebcf6147c4096e9d9b5ea30 I have a 5 year old Mac OS X laptop which died last night -- no lights, nothing, as if the battery and AC line were disconnected. There's nothing on it which is a disaster to lose, but there are some things I'd like to get off. Is it possible to plug the drive into a SATA (?) connector on a Linux system and mount it with some encryption loopback setup to get into my FileVault-protcted home dir? I do have access to a completely different Mac, and I could probably swap drives, boot, get the data I want, shut down, and restore drives, but I have no idea how well that would work. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o