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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 partition 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 or split.  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 systems.

       -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]
              One (or more if split) disk images whose format is given with '-i'.

       ´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 display 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 partition 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>

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