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Start Storage Forensics and File System Analysis PracticeAn analyst recovers a hard drive from a suspect's computer. The drive has a partition table that uses a 32-bit identifier and a maximum partition size of 2 TB. Which partition table type is present?
Explanation: MBR uses 32-bit partition table entries and supports up to 2 TB partitions. GPT uses 64-bit entries and supports larger disks.
During a forensic investigation, an examiner wants to recover deleted files from a FAT32 file system. Which structure is most critical for file recovery?
Explanation: The File Allocation Table (FAT) contains cluster chains for files; deleted entries may still be recoverable if not overwritten.
Which tool is specifically designed for file carving and can recover files based on headers and footers without relying on file system metadata?
Explanation: Foremost is a file carving tool that uses headers/footers. Autopsy and FTK have carving modules but Foremost is dedicated to it.
An analyst notices that a file on an NTFS volume occupies 4096 bytes on disk but its actual data is only 100 bytes. The extra space contains remnants of a previously deleted file. What is this extra space called?
Explanation: File slack is the unused space between the end of the file data and the end of the last cluster allocated to the file.
A forensic investigator is analyzing a Linux ext4 file system. They suspect a file was deleted but its inode may still be intact. Which tool can be used to recover the file by referencing the inode?
Explanation: The 'debugfs' tool can access ext2/3/4 file systems directly and recover files from inodes. 'extundelete' also works, but debugfs is more versatile.
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