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Subject: Re: [sleuthkit-users] file oddity
From: Brian Carrier <carrier () sleuthkit ! org>
Date: 2014-09-10 1:49:33
Message-ID: 9E7019A0-530E-47A5-A847-94B72FE590E9 () sleuthkit ! org
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Hi Stuart,
I'm wondering if the file in question is sparse and Ext4 isn't properly dealing with \
that. I made an issue for it. Any debugging help would be appreciated though to \
verify that in the original file.
brian
On Sep 3, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Stuart Maclean <stuart@apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> I am using tsk 4.1.3 on Ubuntu, 64-bit machine. /dev/sda1 is a ext4
> filessytem.
>
> I have an inode for which istat claims
>
> allocated
> inode: 1322012
> size: 4296704
> direct blocks: 5289177
>
> If I dd the file, I do indeed see 4296704 bytes produced. Somewhat
> curiously, the first 1876 bytes appear to be 'regular content', in fact
> utf-16 text (the file itself is some sort of kde cache file), while the
> remainder of the file, over 4MB, are all zeros. According to dd that is.
>
> Now, if I icat this file (icat also from 4.1.3), the icat produces only
> 4096 bytes of content. I presume this number reflects the fact that
> istat said there was only a single block, and the fs block size is
> 4096. The icat output shows the same 1876 leading bytes as dd did, and
> further has all zeros from there up to its 4096 byte length.
>
> I am not quite sure what is going on. I was under the impression that
> icat and dd would give the same result for this file (and would for all
> allocated files in general).
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Stuart
>
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