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Operating System Forensics
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Operating System Forensics

by Ric Messier
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
386 pages
12h 50m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 2

File Systems

Abstract

This chapter describes digital forensics with a specific focus on the growing need to understand operating system details to be able to perform a forensic analysis. It also describes what an operating system is and why you need to understand the details of the operating systems to be effective.

Keywords

operating systems
forensics
operating environments

INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS CHAPTER:

Windows File Systems–FAT, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS
Linux File Systems–ext2/3/4, ReiserFS
Mac OS X File Systems–HFS+

Introduction

When operating systems such as Windows/DOS and Mac OS/System were created, floppy disks were the dominant storage media on personal computers. You couldn’t store a lot of information on them. Because ...
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780128019634