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Does anyone knows which filesystem the iOS use? I google it and didn't find anything Thanks

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It's HFSX.

According to "Mac OS X, IPod, and IPhone Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit" book, the IPhone Partitioning scheme (which is quite similar to similar to Apple TV) contains:

1 - A first Master Boot Record partition (around 500mb),

2 - followed by an Apple_Free area,

3 - then a first HFSX partition, which primarily stores the iPhone's operating system.

4 - Again, another Apple_Free area

5 - and finally the second HFSX partition holding all user data (apps, movies, pictures, whatever)

Pascal
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In this link here they said that "It is also one of the formats used by the iPod digital music player." so may be HFS and HFS+.

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