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Cygwin: doc: add note about raw devices of BitLocker partitions
Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <christian.franke@t-online.de>
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<command>df</command> output, you should be able to figure out which
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external drive corresponds to which raw disk device name.</para>
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<para>Raw devices of partitions protected by BitLocker provide access to the
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<emphasis>decrypted</emphasis> NTFS image. If the partition is locked, read
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attempts fail with <literal>Permission denied</literal>. The corresponding
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block range from the raw device of the full disk provides access to the
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<emphasis>encrypted</emphasis> image as stored on the disk.</para>
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<note><para>Apart from tape devices which are not block devices and are
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by default accessed directly, accessing mass storage devices raw
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is something you should only do if you know what you're doing and know how to

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