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using knoppix for forensic (serious question)
Hello;
Any assistance will be appreciated.
I have knoppix running from a cd. I'd like to image a IDE hd. I have 2 hds in the system. the one I want to image and a blank one. I'm a bit familiar with the dd utility to image a drive but I need a little hand holding.
If the drive is say a 40 gig hd and i know that only about 6 gigs are used can I image the drive to a blank hd of 10 gig? If so what are the step - commands etc.
will the dd tool also image deleted files and slack space?
Once I've created an image using the dd tool on the target drive I want to perform some tests (i.e. like recover deleted files - I have a tool to do this and intent to use Win2K with this tool against the imaged drive.) What do I have to do to make or unimage the hd or can I just perform the dd image from one drive to another?
I'm getting a bit lost now. But if there is a good url with this information (step by step) I'd be most appreciative. Otherwise someone with a bit of patience would help.
Thanks
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If you're using Knoppix 3.2 then there is a tool called 'partimage' already included. You can find it here: Kmenu>System>partimage
This might be useful for what you wish to accomplish. It can image a drive but will not make an exact mirror, it only copys actual data. Here is the partimage web site:
http://www.partimage.org/
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This is a good page for learning about forensics in Unix:
http://www.crazytrain.com/papers.html
At the bottom of the page is an article about using dd.
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I don't think partimage is a good idea for forensics because it understands ext2 and other file systems and I believe it only backs up the data and not the empty space.
You're probably better off with dd, and piping that across the network if you must (but to a local hard drive would be better).
Make sure you boot with the "noswap" option, otherwise, Knoppix could try to use a swap partition it finds on the hard drive that you are responsible for protecting.
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