5.8 Resources

Important Terms Introduced

  • abstraction

  • address variable

  • admissible

  • bitmap

  • boot blocks

  • check value

  • checksum

  • civil complaint

  • cluster

  • cluster chain

  • concurrency problem

  • criminal complaint

  • cylinder

  • device independence

  • digital forensics

  • disk drive

  • dismount

  • drive controller

  • due diligence

  • evidence log

  • extent

  • file scavenging

  • fragmentation

  • hardware block diagram

  • header

  • high-level format

  • incident

  • index variable

  • inode

  • low-level format

  • mediation

  • modularity

  • Moore’s law

  • mount

  • partition

  • platter

  • pointer variable

  • private action

  • random access

  • raw I/O

  • read/write head

  • remediation

  • sector

  • sequential access

  • software layering

  • track

  • undelete

Abbreviations Introduced

  • APFS—Apple File System

  • AT&T—American Telephone and Telegraph

  • B (uppercase) ...

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