Live Linux Forensics training coming up @WWHackinFest Deadwood! Let's do some daily Linux Forensics trivia as a lead-up! wildwesthackinfest.com/deadw…
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Daily Linux Forensics Trivia #1 -- Name two places in the Linux file system where the file type is encoded. wildwesthackinfest.com/deadw…
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Trivia Answer #1 — File type was originally only stored in the inode. It was later added to directory entries so that commands like “ls -F” would not have to read every inode in a directory in order to display the file type.

Sep 7, 2022 · 11:18 AM UTC

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Replying to @hal_pomeranz
I had forgotten when type wasn't included in the directory. When did that happen?