Files.db

• Path: /sce_pfs/files.db
• Size: variable

files.db structure

Warning : This structure is still uncertain/not complete

files.db is organized in blocks of 1024 bytes, the first block is the header of the file, its structure is still unknown.

Each block contains 4 sub-blocks :

• Block header
• Filenames (9 entries)
• File informations (9 entries)
• Hashes block?

Note : Numbers are stored in little-endian.

Block header

0x10 bytes wide, structure is uncertain.

typedef struct {
    u32 id;
    u32 type;
    u32 nfiles;
    u32 unk1;
} block_header;

id :

• 0xYY : Block identification ? generally 0x02
• 0xffffffff : ???

type

• 0x00 : The block will describe files and parent directories.
• 0x01 : ??? Ignore, changes structure of the current block.

nfiles :

One block describes up to 9 files, although it can be less, nfiles is the number of files described in the current block.

unk1 :

Padding ?

Filenames (9 entries)

9 entries of 72 bytes, describing filename and parent directory.

typedef struct {
    u32 idx;
    char filename[68];
} fname;

idx :

Describes parent directory of current file entry. (Cf. File informations block)

filename :

Filename of current file entry (68 bytes, null terminated).

File informations (9 entries)

9 entries of 0x10 bytes.

typedef struct {
    u32 idx;
    u16 type;
    u16 unk1;
    u32 size;
    u32 unk2;
} finfo;

idx :

Used to retrieve parent directory for filenames block, each file entry has its own index, 0 is for root.

Example :

File/Dir	idx (fname)	idx (finfo)	Path
2 | 3 | /images/abcd/lol.png
1 | 2 | /images/abcd/
0 | 1 | /images/
0 | 4 | /eboot.bin

type :

• 0x1 = normal file
• 0x8000 = dir (directory)
• 0x4006 = nenc (non encrypted file)
• 0x6 = sys (system file)

unk1 :

???

size :

Size of the current file.

unk2 :

Padding ?

Tools

ListDirVita is a simple parser for files.db (Still WIP) [1]