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Message-ID: <4395A31C.6090400@sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Tue Dec  6 14:41:52 2005
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: SANS Stuff

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:31:02 GMT, mary said:
>  
>
>>On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Technica Forensis wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>what are floppies formatted with, again?  as bad as FAT is, it's
>>>hardly outdated.
>>>      
>>>
>>depends on the OS...
>>    
>>
>
>You find a random floppy during a search of an office, and start doing
>forensics on it, there's a 95% chance it's from a Windows box.  And if it's
>from a Mac or Linux box, there's *still* a very good chance that it's FAT,
>simply because the floppy was used for sneakernet transfer to something that
>prefers FAT format floppies....
>
>IBM's AIX boxes don't run anything resembling Windows, and they're Power based
>not x86 based, but the microcode updates for them use FAT-formatted floppies.
>
>  
>
As are the install disks for many GNU/Linux installations and the 
kickstart disks for Red Hat installs.  Anyone who's formatted a floppy 
with an ext fs before knows why fat is used... ext can be a waste of 
space on a media that already has a relatively small space limit.  (For 
"throw-away" mobile storage, anyway.)

             -bkfsec