Analyze Android boot images and Linux partition images
Common partition and image formats used in Android and Linux:
Android boot image containing kernel, ramdisk, device tree, and boot configuration
Android sparse format compresses empty blocks for faster flashing to devices
Standard Linux filesystem used for system, data, and vendor partitions on Android
CD/DVD filesystem format commonly used for Linux installation images
# Extract boot.img components (requires unpack_bootimg) unpack_bootimg --boot_img boot.img --out extracted/ # Convert sparse to raw image simg2img system.img system.raw # Mount ext4 image (Linux) sudo mount -o loop system.raw /mnt/system # Create boot.img mkbootimg --kernel zImage --ramdisk ramdisk.gz -o boot.img
Encode, decode, measure sizes, and transform common formats.