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File System Forensic Analysis
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File System Forensic Analysis

by Brian Carrier
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
16h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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8. File System Analysis

File system analysis examines data in a volume (i.e., a partition or disk) and interprets them as a file system. There are many end results from this process, but examples include listing the files in a directory, recovering deleted content, and viewing the contents of a sector. Recall that analyzing the contents of a file is application-level analysis and is not covered in this book. In this chapter, we look at the general design of file systems and different analysis techniques. This chapter approaches the topic in an abstract fashion and is not limited to how a specific tool analyzes a file system. Instead, we discuss the analysis in general terms. The remaining nine chapters discuss how specific file systems are designed ...

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