[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux

Sum1 not at here.com
Sat Aug 6 20:17:19 EDT 2011


Again to all, thanks for your suggestions….

@Paul - The issue of INIT/ERASE and the operation of file high-water 
marking and a couple of similar things is what I am looking to 
demonstrate and the best way is with nice blocks of data :)

@Johnny - Thanks for the suggestions, I do have all the books going 
back to ……..a long time ago :), but I need the actual physical images 
to play with for this purpose as opposed to a theoretical documentation 
of the contents.

To perhaps assuage the general interest of contributors, I am creating 
disk images (dd in many cases) for students to investigate the storage 
functions of different file systems and how they can be 
investigated/examined in a forensically-sound manner.  *nix and Windows 
are easy, z/OS and i5/OS are also surprisingly easy to create the 
images and the last "interesting" one was VMS.

Dropping a five U160 SCSIs volume set from a DS10L with a nice set of 
information on it into a group of students is sub-optimal.  Creating a 
large container file that I can be comfortable is a binary duplicate is 
more manageable :)

So, thanks for all the help, I have played and checked and am happy 
with the results.

Cheers




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