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greyface-today at 2:02 AM1 replyview on HN

It would also give you information about the order in which blocks were written, and the historical state of the disk. Because of wear leveling, block allocation isn't just a one-time initial thing; the mappings between logical and physical address space are changing with each write.


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vlovich123today at 4:49 AM

That still doesn’t tell you anything about the existence of partitions within the filesystem UNLESS you discover a side channel attack.