April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 12m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Flash memory filesystems
Flash memory is a type of constantly powered nonvolatile memory (NVM) that retains data in the absence of a power supply. Flash memory can be erased and reprogrammed in units of memory called blocks. While the supported filesystems vary based on the device and underlying Linux kernel, the common flash memory filesystems are as follows:
- Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) is a Microsoft proprietary filesystem that was created to be used on flash drives such as USB memory sticks and SD cards. Because of the license requirements, it isn't part of the standard Linux kernel. But still, a few manufacturers provide support for this filesystem.
- Flash Friendly File System (F2FS) was released in February 2013 to support ...