How To Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7.
What is fuse-dislocker
Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions (“drives”) under a Linux system. The driver has the capability to read/write partitions encrypted using Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (AES-CBC, AES-XTS, 128 or 256 bits, with or without the Elephant diffuser, encrypted partitions); BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions (USB/FAT32 partitions). A mount point needs to be given to dislocker-fuse. Once keys are decrypted, a file named ‘dislocker-file’ appears into this provided mount point. This file is a virtual NTFS partition, it can be mounted as any NTFS partition and then reading from it or writing to it is possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fuse-dislocker.
Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fuse-dislocker using yum by running the following command:
Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install fuse-dislocker using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fuse-dislocker package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.