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sm or system: Without pre-boot authentication, mount a partition that is

within the key scope of system encryption (for example, a partition located

on the encrypted system drive of another operating system that is not

running). Useful e.g. for backup or repair operations.

Note: If you supply a password as a parameter of /p, make sure that the

password has been typed using the standard US keyboard layout (in

contrast, the GUI ensures this automatically). This is required due to the

fact that the password needs to be typed in the pre-boot environment

(before Windows starts) where non-US Windows keyboard layouts are

not

available.

bk or headerbak: Mount volume using embedded backup header.

Note: All volumes contain an embedded

backup header (located at the

end of the volume).

recovery: Do not verify any checksums stored in the volume header.

This

option should be used only when the volume header is damaged and

the

volume cannot be mounted even with the mount option headerbak.

label=LabelValue: Use the given string value LabelValue as a label

of the mounted volume in Windows Explorer. The maximum length for

LabelValue is 32 characters for NTFS volumes and 11 characters for

FAT volumes. For example, /m label=MyDrive will set the label of the

drive in Explorer to MyDrive.

Example: /m ro.

Please not that this switch may be present several times in the command

line in order to specify multiple mount options (e.g.: /m rm /m ts)

VeraCrypt Format.exe (VeraCrypt Volume Creation Wizard):

/create

Create a container based volume in command line mode. It must be

followed by the file name of the container to be created.

/size

(Only with /create)

It must be followed by a parameter indicating the size of the container file

that will be created. This parameter is a number indicating the size in Bytes.

It can have a suffixe 'K', 'M', 'G' or 'T' to indicate that the value is in Kilobytes,

Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes respectively. For example:

 /size 5000000: the container size will be 5000000 bytes

 /size 25K: the container size will be 25 KiloBytes.

 /size 100M: the container size will be 100 MegaBytes.

 /size 2G: the container size will be 2 GigaBytes.

 /size 1T: the container size will be 1 TeraBytes.

/password

(Only with /create)

It must be followed by a parameter indicating the password of the container

that will be created.

/hash

(Only with /create)

It must be followed by a parameter indicating the PRF hash algorithm to use