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Re: Checking if a volume is a FileVault volume?
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Re: Checking if a volume is a FileVault volume?


  • Subject: Re: Checking if a volume is a FileVault volume?
  • From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:11:57 +0100

Am 18.01.2008 um 21:04 schrieb Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>:

Someone else suggested checking for the presence of ACLs, but that
won't work at all for Panther users, and it will only work for Tiger
users if they're running Server, so that one's out as well.

That someone was me and I have to apologize! I mistakenly mistook "FileVault" for "Time Machine" so please ignore my previous post WRT FileVault. (For Time Machine my comments would still be valid though ;-)


Unfortunatly I don't know about any general way of checking for FileVault volumes.

One thing though: on Tiger the mountpoint for the FileVault volume is not /Volumes/<name> but /Users/<name>. (I havn't checked Leopard yet but I suspect the same.) So finding the Volume in the first place might not be obvious.

The permissions for mounted FileVault volumes, or rather /Users/ <name>, differ from those for normal users. While not a sure fire way this might be a hint.


Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses.

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