OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Mount An Encrypted Volume
May 9, 2012
I decided not to use just one partition with my disk because i wanted to separte important documents from the OS and apps so reformated my disk with 2 partitions 1 for OS and apps and one for docs. I also wanted to keep the docs partition secure so it was my intention to use filevault... however it learned that file vault would only work on my whole disk and not on a sigle volume. At least thats the only option i get when i go to "Turn on FileVault" in the Security and Privacy of system preferences. So what i tried next was to reformat the "docs" partition i have created using the Mac OS extended (journaled) encrypted option. This option seemed to work but after formating the partition, I could not mount the volume.
Question is: what is the best way for what i am trying to do and how to do it.
a) is there a way to use FileVault on a single volume instead of the whle disk?
b) alternatively, how to format an encrypted partition and mount it?
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I use the following setup:SSD: SystemInternal HDD: Data (Documents, Music, etc.)Both disks are encrypted via the Core Storage utility.It seems I can't mount the "Data" disk anymore.I wanted to download a random pdf which failed. ("Downloads Folder" is on "Data" Volume) Restarted the machine and now all aliased folders which refer to the "Data" volume have a question mark overlay rendered on their icon.It's not possible to mount/unlock the "Data" disk through disk utility a. The "Data" volume is, according to DiskUtility quite full (only 16MB left). I have the suspicion that this small amount of space left in combination with the encryption causes some trouble.What to do?Â
+-- Logical Volume Group 5898542B-F53F-46A6-B529-C31152081292
=========================================================
Name: Data
Status: Online
Size: 499763888128 B (499.8 GB)
Free Space: 16777216 B (16.8 MB)
|
+-< Physical Volume C6AAFA40-7F30-40C3-BC1E-A71A3C3DA757
[code]....
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