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mmls - Display the partition lsayout of a volume system (partition
tables)
mmls [-t mmtype ] [-o offset ] [ -i imgtype ] [-brvV] [-aAmM]
image [images]
mmls displays the layout of the partitions in
a volume system, which include partition tables and disk labels.
- -t
mmtype
- Specify the media management type. Use ’-t list’ to list the supported
types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
- -o offset
- Specify the
offset into the image where the volume containing the partition system
starts. The relative offset of the partition system will be added to this
value.
- -i imgtype
- Identify the type of image file, such as raw or split. If
not given, autodetection methods are used.
- -b
- Include a column with the partition
sizes in bytes
- -r
- Recurse into DOS partitions and look for other partition
tables. This setup frequently occurs when Unix is installed on x86 systems.
- -v
- Verbose output of debugging statements to stderr
- -V
- Display version
- -a
- Show
allocated volumes
- -A
- Show unallocated volumes
- -m
- Show metadata volumes
- -M
- Hide
metadata volumes
- image [images]
- One (or more if split) disk images whose
format is given with ’-i’.
’mmls’ is similar to ’fdisk -lu’ in Linux with a few
differences. Namely, it will show which sectors are not being used so
that those can be searched for hidden data. It also gives the length value
so that it can be plugged into ’dd’ more easily for extracting the partitions.
It also will show BSD disk labels for Free, Open, and NetBSD and will
display the output in sectors and not cylinders. Lastly, it works on non-Linux
systems.
If none of -a, -A, -m, or -M are given then all volume types will
be listed. If any of them are given, then only the types specified on the
command line will be listed. Allocated volumes are those that are listed
in a partition table in the volume system. Unallocated volumes are virtually
created by mmls to show you which sectors have not been allocated to a
volume. The metadata volumes overlap the allocated and unallocated volumes
and describe where the partition tables and other metadata structures are
located. In some volume systems, these structures are in allocated space
and in others they are in unallocated space. They can be hidden with -M.
To list the partition table of a Windows system using autodetect:
# mmls disk_image.dd
To list the contents of a BSD system that starts
in sector 12345 of a split image:
# mmls -t bsd -o 12345 -i split disk-1.dd
disk-2.dd
Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>
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