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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Perform data acquisition, digital investigation, and threat analysis using Kali Linux tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625005
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Preface 1. Introduction to Digital Forensics FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Kali Linux 3. Understanding Filesystems and Storage Media 4. Incident Response and Data Acquisition 5. Evidence Acquisition and Preservation with DC3DD and Guymager 6. File Recovery and Data Carving with Foremost, Scalpel, and Bulk Extractor 7. Memory Forensics with Volatility 8. Autopsy – The Sleuth Kit 9. Network and Internet Capture Analysis with Xplico 10. Revealing Evidence Using DFF

Drive and partition recognition in Linux


Users new to Kali or any Linux variations may find that the drive and partition recognition and naming in Kali are different to that of Windows devices.

A typical device in Linux can be addressed or recognized as /dev/sda, whereas drives in Windows are usually recognized as Disk 0 and Disk 1, and so on:

  • /dev: Refers to the path of all devices and drives that can be read from or written to, recognized by Linux
  • /sda: Refers to SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), SATA, and USB devices

The sd stands for SCSI Mass-Storage Driver, with the letter after representing the drive number:

  • sda: Drive 0 or the first drive recognized
  • sdb: The second drive

While Windows recognizes partitions as primary, logical, and extended, Linux partitions are recognized as numbers, after the drive letter:

  • sda1: Partition 1 on the first disk (sda)
  • sda2: Partition 2 on the first disk
  • sdb1: Partition 1 on the second disk (sdb)
  • sdb2: Partition 2 on the second disk

Device identification...

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