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Re: raw disk access



Just a thought, but could one just use cat?  I know that you can write
disk image to a floppy with cat, so why should one not be able to cat
/dev/hda1 > imagefile

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Joshua SS Miller

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:19, Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
> already answered but dd | nc (to send it to another box) is a classical.
> 
> Otherwise, some other tools can give you as well memory dumps which may
> sometimes be very usefull.
> 
> JeF
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, viv wrote:
> > 	Hi.
> > 
> > 	As a Debian user, i am posting to this list first in the hopes
> > 	that what i am looking for can be found as a Debian package.
> > 
> > 	i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer
> > 	crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool
> > 	that provides raw drive (hard, floppy, CD, DVD, etc.) access in
> > 	order to create complete and accurate drive images.
> > 
> > 	If such a tool does not exist within Debian, is anyone aware of
> > 	any application (GPLed, please) that does?  Failing that, i am
> > 	willing to write my own tool, if necessary, and would appreciate
> > 	any pointers to good reference material (raw drive access and
> > 	how to work with the images created).
> > 
> > 	If it helps, i am running with the latest 'unstable' packages.
> > 
> > 	Many thanks.
> > 
> > -- 
> > viv <viv@veeev.com>
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> -> Jean-Francois Dive
> --> jef@linuxbe.org
> 
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