On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 7:15 AM Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com said:
This is a good point to underscore. The user experience following a Fedora installation when Bitlocker is enabled, is the appearance of Windows being broken or inaccessible. We are probably better off asking Anaconda to refuse to install when Bitlocker is detected. Or at least a warning dialog.
This brings up something I've wondered about... I have a Thinkpad T14 (gen 2a) bought earlier this year. I shrunk the pre-installed Windows within Windows before installing Fedora 35. I have no real need to access it from Linux (only reason I didn't delete Windows is it's a work computer).
I did poke at it though, and trying to mount it (with no FS type specified) returns "unknown filesystem type 'BitLocker'.". When I boot into Windows, it still works fine (no issue booting). I tried to get a recovery key, but Windows says it's not encrypted.
My understanding is that Windows preloads are now blank-encrypted. That is, there's a BitLocker volume wrapping the filesystem, even with encryption turned off. It makes encrypting the disk later significantly easier (it doesn't have to do filesystem resizing and reallocation games).