Drive preparation

To use Fuji at its fullest extent, you will need a device for the software itself and one or more external drives for acquiring evidence.

This section describes how to prepare both.

Preparing a Fuji Cartridge drive

A Fuji Cartridge is an external USB device used for the software itself. It is usually a USB key.

While having a dual-connector (USB-A and USB-C) drive is suggested, you can use any USB thumbdrive as long as it is at least 256 MB of size and it can be connected to the target Mac.

Any spare USB key will suffice.

You should create as many Fuji Cartridge drives as you need, keeping in mind that they don’t have to be connected during the whole acquisition (if running in recovery mode).

Icon of a cartridge with the Fuji icon as the label

Icon of the Fuji Cartridge drive (FujiApp)

Here’s how to create one:

  1. Download the latest version of the universal Fuji DMG from GitHub
  2. Download and install balenaEtcher
  3. Run Etcher and burn the DMG onto your USB drive

✅ You can use any computer running macOS, Windows, or Linux to do this.

Preparing a drive for evidence

This is pretty straightforward:

  1. Partition your destination drive using the exFAT file system
  2. Set the volume label as Fuji

Optionally you can download and copy the universal Fuji DMG in the drive, if you plan to run it from a live macOS environment without a separate Fuji Cartridge drive.

Congratulations! You are now ready to use Fuji. 🚀