About the Book:
Most digital evidence is stored within the computer-s file system, but understanding how file systems work is one of the most technically challenging concepts for a digital investigator because there exists little documentation. Now, security expert Brian Carrier has written the definitive reference for everyone who wants to understand and be able to testify about how file system analysis is performed.
Carrier begins with an overview of investigation and computer foundations and then gives an authoritative, comprehensive, and illustrated overview of contemporary volume and file systems: Crucial information for discovering hidden evidence, recovering deleted data, and validating your tools.
Table of Contents
FAT Data Structures
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
NTFS Data Structures
Bibliography
Hard Disk Data Acquisition
PCbased Partitions
Specific File Systems
NTFS Analysis
FAT Concepts and Analysis
Serverbased Partitions
GPT Partitions
UFS2 Inodes
