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The QNX6 filesystem is present in Smartphones delivered by Blackberry (e.g. Devices that are using Blackberry 10) and modern vehicle infotainment systems that use QNX as their operating system. In 2015 QNX as an OS was used in over 50 million vehicles [6] and can hence be considered as one of the most important operating systems in the automotive world. Today’s digital forensics tools don’t recover a lot from this filesystem, have difficulties with different block sizes, or even don’t support the filesystem at all. So it’s crucial for the forensic examiner to understand the principles of this filesystem used. This chapter gives an overview of how the filesystem generally stores the files and metadata to give the examiner the chance to get the most information out of the evidence.
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Meyer, C. (2022). QNX6. In: Hummert, C., Pawlaszczyk, D. (eds) Mobile Forensics – The File Format Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98467-0_4
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