mmls(1) mmls(1)
NAME
mmls - Display the partition layout of a volume system (partition
tables)
SYNOPSIS
mmls [-t mmtype ] [-o offset ] [ -i imgtype ] [-b dev_sector_size]
[-BrvV] [-aAmM] image [images]
DESCRIPTION
mmls displays the layout of the partitions in a volume system, which
include partition tables and disk labels.
ARGUMENTS
-t mmtype
Specify the media management type. Use '-t list' to list the
supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.
-o offset
Specify the offset into the image where the volume containing
the partition system starts. The relative offset of the parti-
tion system will be added to this value.
-b dev_sector_size
The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors. If not
given, the value in the image format is used (if it exists) or
512-bytes is assumed.
-i imgtype
Identify the type of image file, such as raw. Use '-i list' to
list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods
are used.
-B Include a column with the partition sizes in bytes
-r Recurse into DOS partitions and look for other partition tables.
This setup frequently occurs when Unix is installed on x86 sys-
tems.
-v Verbose output of debugging statements to stderr
-V Display version
-a Show allocated volumes
-A Show unallocated volumes
-m Show metadata volumes
-M Hide metadata volumes
image [images]
The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with
'-i'. Multiple image file names can be given if the image is
split into multiple segments. If only one image file is given,
and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as indicated by
ending in '.001'), subsequent image segments will be included
automatically.
'mmls' is similar to 'fdisk -lu' in Linux with a few differences.
Namely, it will show which sectors are not being used so that those can
be searched for hidden data. It also gives the length value so that it
can be plugged into 'dd' more easily for extracting the partitions. It
also will show BSD disk labels for Free, Open, and NetBSD and will dis-
play the output in sectors and not cylinders. Lastly, it works on non-
Linux systems.
If none of -a, -A, -m, or -M are given then all volume types will be
listed. If any of them are given, then only the types specified on the
command line will be listed.
Allocated volumes are those that are listed in a partition table in the
volume system AND can store data. Unallocated volumes are virtually
created by mmls to show you which sectors have not been allocated to a
volume. The metadata volumes overlap the allocated and unallocated
volumes and describe where the partition tables and other metadata
structures are located. In some volume systems, these structures are
in allocated space and in others they are in unallocated space. In
some volume systems, their location is explicitly given in the parti-
tion tables and in others they are not.
EXAMPLES
To list the partition table of a Windows system using autodetect:
# mmls disk_image.dd
To list the contents of a BSD system that starts in sector 12345 of a
split image:
# mmls -t bsd -o 12345 -i split disk-1.dd disk-2.dd
AUTHOR
Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>
mmls(1)
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