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FileVault 2 and the Imaging Process

  • May 28, 2015
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So, if I get a machine returned to me from a "user-who-is-no-longer" which contains an FV2 protected volume (the recovery key is unknown), is there any way to just re-image that machine?

I know how to manually remove the CS logical volume group that contains the FV2 protected volume, but that's a very manual process and I'm hoping there's some way that can be handled "automagically" with Casper Imaging.

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  • Legendary Contributor
  • May 28, 2015

I thought Casper Imaging already handled this case, or at least the recent versions, no? It should be able to repartition/reformat the drive regardless if there's a CoreStorage volume on it or not.
We use DeployStudio and added a script to run prior to the actual imaging steps that just does a repartition on the drive.


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  • Valued Contributor
  • May 28, 2015

I know at the very least you can netboot and then erase the encrypted drive with disk utility.


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  • Contributor
  • May 29, 2015

I second kstick.

I normally netboot or boot or an external drive and use disk utility to wipe and reformat the drive.