Mounting HDD on PC

Introduction

• The goal is to mount PS3 HDD on PC Linux and make changes to it.
• Use device mapper for transparent encryption/decryption.

Device Mapper

• A really cool feature of Linux 2.6/3.
• The device mapper is stackable.

dm-bswap16

• Swaps bytes in each 16-bit word.
• It is necessray for HDD/VFLASH encryption/decryption.

GIT repo: http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/dm-bswap16

Links

• http://linuxgazette.net/114/kapil.html
• http://techgmm.blogspot.de/p/writing-your-own-device-mapper-target.html
• http://www.freeotfe.org/docs/Main/mobile_site/Linux_examples__dm-crypt.htm
• http://www.hopelesscase.com/linuxnotes/encrypted_filesystems/dmsetup_losetup_and_mount