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Hack and / – Forensics with Ext4

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 29, 2012

“The first problem showed up when I tried to navigate through
the filesystem with Autopsy?all of the directories below the root
directory appeared to be empty. I knew that couldn’t be right, but
I wasn’t sure what the problem was.

At first, I thought I might just have a corrupted copy of the
image, but since the md5sum seemed to take almost as long as
copying the image, I started the image copy again from my gold
master just to be sure. When that still didn’t work, I tried to use
Sleuthkit from the command line and even tried tools from The
Coroner’s Toolkit, yet I got the same result.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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