Articles, tagged with "linux data", page 2
13th August 2010
Are you using a Linux system and are unable to locate some of your files after a power outage? If yes, then there are chances that you may have lost these files due to any random reason. There are few methods in Linux that you can use to recover these fil...
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Author:
jonny defh
12th August 2010
MBR, the acronym stands for Master Boot Record. It is also known as the partition sector, that is the first 512-byte boot sector of a partitioned hard disk. MBR holds the primary partition table of the hard disk and your LINUX system boots only after the ...
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Author:
jonny defh
20th July 2010
Accidental deletion of file is one of the most common reasons of data loss as it is a very common user mistake. You may unintentionally remove some important files from Ext2 file system volume of Linux hard drive to free up the disk space and then realize...
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Author:
jonny defh
16th July 2010
Though, recent versions of various LINUX flavors come with attractive and friendly graphical user interfaces, basically LINUX is a command based operating system. In LINUX, there lies a command for everything and these commands enable you to carry out act...
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Author:
jonny defh
22nd June 2010
You can effectively manage your valuable data on Linux hard drive by dividing it into various logical disks, known as volumes. Every hard drive volume works as a different hard drive and can be used to store various kinds of data. Every volume has a file ...
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Author:
jonny defh
02nd June 2010
Is your Linux hard drive crashing abruptly every time when you boot your system? Are you unable to boot your Linux computer and access data from it? Well, the problem may occur due to numerous reasons, which cause hard drive crash. Most commonly, this pro...
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Author:
jonny defh
01st June 2010
A Linux based computer system becomes unbootable in case its file system gets corrupted or damaged. In most of these situations, a Linux user encounters an error message that does not allow him/her to access the data saved on the Linux hard drive. Few mai...
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Author:
jonny defh
11th May 2010
Data loss is a terrible situation, which may occur to any system, irrespective of the operating system and hardware platform. Sometimes, you may find that your Linux computer does not boot properly or you can not find stored data on your Linux hard drive....
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Author:
jonny defh
29th April 2010
Resizing is a regular process carried out by almost all Linux users to increase, decrease, create, delete, or reorganize the size of their Linux-based hard drive volumes. To carry out resizing, most of the users opt for an effective third-party partitioni...
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Author:
Tom Patrick
23rd April 2010
In a Linux system, the basic partition type code that is used commonly is 0×83. It is used across most of the file systems such as ext2, ext3, ext4, etc. When a hard disk is partitioned in a fresh Linux system, it consists of two partitions, a root direc...
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Author:
jonny defh
15th April 2010
Modern computers allow you to install two or more operating systems on a single hard disk. This configuration is known as ‘Multi-Boot'. Every operating system, such as Linux, employs one or more hard drive partitions. The way in which hard drive partiti...
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Author:
jonny defh
13th April 2010
Most of the Linux file systems, including ext3, support file system journaling and thus are less prone to corruption. But as all problems can't always be ruled out, a Linux volume can get corrupt for multitude of reasons. Though you can delete the corrupt...
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Author:
jonny defh
31st March 2010
A Linux hard drive is divided into primary (boot) partitions, swap partitions, and logical partitions. Entries of all these partitions are saved in a 'partition table'. Corruption in partition table primarily occurs due to improper system shutdown, human ...
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Author:
jonny defh
30th March 2010
xt3 or Third Extended is a reliable and popular file system for Linux operating system. It supports advanced concept of file system journaling to protect your system against unexpected system shutdown, system crash, and power outages like situations. It r...
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Author:
allexwilson
24th March 2010
An Ext2 file system contains a component named 'superblock' to save critical information about the file system. This component, if corrupted, gives an error at the time of mounting of the hard disk partition. The data saved in the hard disk partition beco...
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Author:
jonny defh