Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

Pseudo filesystems

In addition to these, there are also pseudo filesystems, which can be thought of as logical groupings of files. The following are some of the important pseudo filesystems found in Android devices:

• The cgroup pseudo filesystem provides a way to access and define several kernel parameters. There are a number of different process control groups present. As shown in the following command-line output, the list of groups can be seen in the /proc/cgroups file:

Android devices use this filesystem to track their job. They are responsible for aggregating the tasks and keeping track of them.

• The rootfs filesystem is one of the main ...