Readme update with filesystem info

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Dan Puttick 2017-01-25 01:48:21 -05:00
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If you'd like to contribute to the project or build the image yourself, see
[contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the [setup readme](README_setup.md).
This is a work in progress - contributions are welcome.
Why/What
========
This project aims to be useful when you get/find a USB key that you can't trust,
and you want to have a look at its contents without taking the risk of plugging it into your
main computer directly.
and you want to look at its contents without taking the risk of plugging it into
your computer directly.
This is a work in progress - contributions are welcome:
CIRCLean is currently tested to work with USB keys that have FAT32, NTFS, or
ext2/3/4 filesystems. Currently, exFAT is not supported due to lack of support for
this format in pmount. The vast majority of USB keys will be FAT32 or NTFS.
The content of the first key will be copied or/and converted to the second key
following these rules (based on the mime type, as determined by libmagic):
The content of the untrusted key will be copied or/and converted to the second
(blank) key following these rules (based on the mime type as determined bylibmagic):
- Direct copy of:
- Plain text files (mime type: text/*)
- Audio files (mime type: audio/*)