Abstract
Minnaard proposed a novel method that constructs a creation time bound of files recovered without time information. The method exploits a relationship between the creation order of files and their locations on a storage device managed with the Linux FAT32 file system. This creation order reconstruction method is valid only in non-wraparound situations, where the file creation time in a former position is earlier than that in a latter position. In this article, we show that if the Linux FAT32 file allocator traverses the storage space more than once, the creation time of a recovered file is possibly earlier than that of a former file and possibly later than that of a latter file on the Linux FAT32 file system. Also it is analytically verified that there are at most. n candidates for the creation time bound of each recovered file where. n is the number of traversals by the file allocator. Our analysis is evaluated by examining file allocation patterns of two commercial in-car dashboard cameras.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Digital Investigation |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2015 |
Keywords
- Creation time
- FAT32
- Linux file system
- Recovered file
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Law
- Computer Science Applications
- Medical Laboratory Technology