December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
8h 29m
English
When imaging a computer, an examiner must first find what the drive is mounted as, for example, /dev/sda. The same is true when imaging an Android device. The first step is to launch the ADB shell and view the /proc/partitions file by using the following command:
cat /proc/partitions
The output will show all of the partitions on the device:

In the preceding output, mmcblk0 is the entirety of the flash memory on the device. To image the entire flash memory, we could use /dev/blk/mmcblk0 as the input file flag (if) for the dd command. Everything following it, indicated by p1-24, is a partition of the flash memory. ...
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