Re: unable to mount fs for forensics

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 22:42:36 PST

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    On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:30:52 +0800, Susan Chan Lee said:
     
    > Anyway I got it working using the below commands. BUT my question to the
    > forensics guru's is will using the losetup and mke2fs effect the
    > integrity of the dd image.
    
    'mke2fs' is the moral equivalent of the Microsoft 'format c:'.  You've just
    trashed any useful data there.  Try again from an unmangled copy - what you
    probablyh wanted to use was 'losetup' and then 'fsck' (file system consistency
    checker).
    -- 
    				Valdis Kletnieks
    				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
    				Virginia Tech
    
    
    
    



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