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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.


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


The VeraCrypt documentation disagrees with you:

> If you need plausible deniability, you must not use VeraCrypt to encrypt any part of (or create encrypted containers on) a device (or file system) that utilizes a wear-leveling mechanism.

https://veracrypt.io/en/Wear-Leveling.html




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