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6 mmls - Display the partition layout of a volume system (partition
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10 mmls [-t mmtype ] [-o offset ] [ -i imgtype ] [-b dev_sector_size]
11 [-BrvV] [-aAmM] image [images]
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14 mmls displays the layout of the partitions in a volume system, which
15 include partition tables and disk labels.
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19 -t mmtype
20 Specify the media management type. Use '-t list' to list the
21 supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
22 -o offset
24 Specify the offset into the image where the volume containing
25 the partition system starts. The relative offset of the parti‐
26 tion system will be added to this value.
27 -b dev_sector_size
29 The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors. If not
30 given, the value in the image format is used (if it exists) or
31 512-bytes is assumed.
32 -i imgtype
34 Identify the type of image file, such as raw. Use '-i list' to
35 list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods
36 are used.
37 -B Include a column with the partition sizes in bytes
39 -r Recurse into DOS partitions and look for other partition tables.
41 This setup frequently occurs when Unix is installed on x86 sys‐
42 tems.
43 -v Verbose output of debugging statements to stderr
45 -V Display version
47 -a Show allocated volumes
49 -A Show unallocated volumes
51 -m Show metadata volumes
53 -M Hide metadata volumes
55 image [images]
57 The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with
58 '-i'. Multiple image file names can be given if the image is
59 split into multiple segments. If only one image file is given,
60 and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as indicated by
61 ending in '.001'), subsequent image segments will be included
62 automatically.
63 ´mmls´ is similar to 'fdisk -lu' in Linux with a few differences.
66 Namely, it will show which sectors are not being used so that those can
67 be searched for hidden data. It also gives the length value so that it
68 can be plugged into 'dd' more easily for extracting the partitions. It
69 also will show BSD disk labels for Free, Open, and NetBSD and will dis‐
70 play the output in sectors and not cylinders. Lastly, it works on non-
71 Linux systems.
72 If none of -a, -A, -m, or -M are given then all volume types will be
74 listed. If any of them are given, then only the types specified on the
75 command line will be listed.
76 Allocated volumes are those that are listed in a partition table in the
78 volume system AND can store data. Unallocated volumes are virtually
79 created by mmls to show you which sectors have not been allocated to a
80 volume. The metadata volumes overlap the allocated and unallocated
81 volumes and describe where the partition tables and other metadata
82 structures are located. In some volume systems, these structures are
83 in allocated space and in others they are in unallocated space. In
84 some volume systems, their location is explicitly given in the parti‐
85 tion tables and in others they are not.
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89 To list the partition table of a Windows system using autodetect:
90 # mmls disk_image.dd
92 To list the contents of a BSD system that starts in sector 12345 of a
94 split image:
95 # mmls -t bsd -o 12345 -i split disk-1.dd disk-2.dd
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100 Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>
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