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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hardly outdated.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
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