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6 ifind - Find the meta-data structure that has allocated a given disk
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10 ifind [-avVl] [-f fstype] [-d data_unit] [-n file] [-p par_inode] [-z
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14 ifind finds the meta-data structure that has data_unit allocated a data
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24 The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with
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36 Finds the meta data structure that has allocated a given data
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41 Finds the meta data structure that is pointed to by the given
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46 Finds the unallocated MFT entries in an NTFS image that have the
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93 Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>
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