Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install disktype on Kali Linux.
What is disktype
disktype is:
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or
disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables and
boot codes. This software can be used for forensics analysis.
As of version 9, disktype knows about the following formats:
File systems:
FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/exFAT
NTFS
HPFS
MFS, HFS, HFS Plus
ISO9660 (incl. Joliet, El Torito)
UDF
ext2/ext3
ext4 (patch from upstream CVS)
btrfs (patch from upstream CVS)
Minix
ReiserFS
Reiser4
Linux romfs
Linux cramfs
Linux squashfs
UFS (some variations)
SysV FS (some variations)
JFS
XFS
F2FS
Amiga FS/FFS
Amiga SFS
Amiga PFS
BeOS BFS
QNX4 FS
3DO CD-ROM FS
Veritas VxFS
Xbox DVD file system
Partitioning:
DOS/PC style
EFI GPT
Apple
Amiga “Rigid Disk”
ATARI ST (AHDI3)
BSD disklabel
Linux RAID physical disks
Linux LVM1 physical volumes
Linux LVM2 physical volumes
Solaris SPARC disklabel
Solaris x86 disklabel (vtoc)
Other structures:
Debian split floppy header
Linux swap
Disk images:
Raw CD image (.bin)
Virtual PC hard disk image
Apple UDIF disk image (limited)
Boot loaders:
LILO
GRUB
SYSLINUX
ISOLINUX
Linux kernel
FreeBSD loader
Windows/MS-DOS loader
BeOS loader, Haiku loader
Sega Dreamcast
Compression formats:
gzip
compress
bzip2
Archive formats:
tar
cpio
bar
dump/restore
There are three methods to install disktype on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install disktype Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install disktype using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install disktypeInstall disktype Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install disktype using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install disktypeInstall disktype Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install disktype using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install disktype
How To Uninstall disktype on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the disktype package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove disktype
Uninstall disktype And Its Dependencies
To uninstall disktype and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove disktype
Remove disktype Configurations and Data
To remove disktype configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge disktype
Remove disktype configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove disktype configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge disktype
Dependencies
disktype have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install disktype package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
