On 10 November 2011 19:25, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 / [email protected] > 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
>From a casual read through the wiki page on Filevault, you should be able to get it up and running provided you still have the Master password. In fact, the age of the install may be an advantage - the encryption schemes are well understood, and some versions even have cryptographic weaknesses. If you are lucky enough to have the 'Sparse Image' variant (from OS10.4), it may even be possible to recover the majority ov the content, even if some of it is damaged through disk failure (although your description sounds more like motherboard / power failure. As to whether someone has written mount_filevault or not, I've no idea. Happy googling!
