Cygwin: doc: add note about raw devices of BitLocker partitions

 Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <christian.franke@t-online.de>
 

diff --git a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml
index 02375e737ecf98a879dc906270ffb506d99bdb20..4b232002af647ad19ea70c0d48d4559fe44ac2c7 100644 (file)
--- a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml
@@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ the information between <filename>/proc/partitions</filename> and the
 <command>df</command> output, you should be able to figure out which
 external drive corresponds to which raw disk device name.</para>
 
+<para>Raw devices of partitions protected by BitLocker provide access to the
+<emphasis>decrypted</emphasis> NTFS image.  If the partition is locked, read
+attempts fail with <literal>Permission denied</literal>.  The corresponding
+block range from the raw device of the full disk provides access to the
+<emphasis>encrypted</emphasis> image as stored on the disk.</para>
+
 <note><para>Apart from tape devices which are not block devices and are
 by default accessed directly, accessing mass storage devices raw
 is something you should only do if you know what you're doing and know how to