Everything about ExFAT

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ExFATA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: ExFAT and FAT File Systems InternalsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: It is about time–Do exFAT implementations handle timestamps correctly?Cited 4 times
4. Go sideways: File Allocation TableA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Comparison of file systemsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• It is about time–Do exFAT implementations handle timestamps correctly?

  Rune Nordvik, Stefan Axelsson · 2022 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 4 citations

• Corrigendum to “It is about time–do exFAT implementations handle timestamps correctly?” [Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 42–43 (2022) 301476]

  Rune Nordvik, Stefan Axelsson · 2023 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 1 citations

• Analisis Perbandingan Jumlah File Carving untuk Format Ekstensi NTFS, FAT32 dan EXfat

  M Agus Kholilur Rahman, Yudi Prayudi, Erika Ramadhani · 2025 · JIIP - Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan · 1 citations

• An Introduction to the exFAT File System and How to Hide Data Within

  Julian Heeger, York Yannikos, Martin Steinebach · 2022 · Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility · 0 citations

• PAREX: A Novel exFAT Parser for File System Forensics

  Gaurav Gogia, Parag Rughani · 2024 · Computación y Sistemas · 0 citations

• Performance and Efficiency Analysis of NTFS, exFAT, and EXT4 on SSD Using a Multi-Workload Approach

  Wahyudin Wahyudin, Agung Permana, Jan Everhard · 2026 · Computer Journal · 0 citations

• Fuzzing exFAT and NTFS3 File Systems With the Linux Kernel Library: Vulnerability Discovery and Case Studies

  Jaehun Gou, Jihoon Kwon, Seunghun Han · 2026 · IEEE Access · 0 citations

• Methodologies for Geotagging in FAT and ExFAT File Systems for Smart Phones

  Keshava Munegowda, G T Raju, Veeramanikandan Raju · 2014 · International Journal of Computer Applications · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕ExFAT and FAT File Systems InternalsKeshava Munegowda · 2016
• 📕ExFAT and FAT File Systems InternalsKeshava MUNEGOWDA · 2021

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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