File System at Glance

When we want to learn about Computer Forensic, File System can't be excluded from our learning material. So, in this post I'll explain a little about File System.

File system is a method, how to deal with files on a computer. How the data organized, stored, updated, modified, as well as manage the available free space on the storage media. The type of a hardware filesystem is usually adjusted with the characteristics of the storage device. So, the filesystem of the Harddisk is usually different with the filesystem of a Flashdisk or a Floppydisk. Another adjustment is including an Operating System as its parameter. Windows filesystem (which usually is FAT or NTFS), is different with Linux filesystem (ext2,ext3,ext4), as well as Mac filesystem. Still, nowadays an Operating System able to use more than one filesystem.

Install Backtrack 5 R1 (Text Mode)

For you who want to install Backtrack 5 R1 via text mode..

Here's what you must do :

# wget http://bt.gxrg.org/other/tools/script/shell/bt4-5-manual-install/install-bt5-r1.sh
# sh install-bt5-r1.sh

Backtrack USB Live/Persistent

All Linux Distros can be booted through a USB Flashdisk.
There's some software to make it like unetbootin or Linuxlive usb creator.
but I myself prefer to use Linuxlive usb creator because it more user friendly than unetbootin.
Unetbootin SS :

Linuxlive USB Creator SS :

So, here's a way to make you USB Flashdisk become a Backtrack nest's.