We will inspect filesystem images. We will reason about the filesystem structures, extract useful information (programmatically), and verify their integrity.

To be completed on your own machine: WSL, or Linux.

Mac users: try Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/ You can have a free account.

**Contain some exercises requiring the root privilege, which cannot be done on granger1/2. **

• (primary) experience with filesystem data structures
• (primary) reverse-engineering binary data

This las has two phases. Each phase has its own description and assignments.

• Interpretation: parse given ext2 images and dump their key data structures.

• Consistency: check given ext2 images and report any inconsistency

Credits: Derived from UCLA CS111