In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are checked. In the remaining three phases, the connectivity, file reference counts [...] [...more]
In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are checked. In the remaining three phases, the connectivity, file reference counts [...] [...more]
Booting errors are very common in Linux operating system, which makes your system unbootable and unusable. The errors prevent your system from booting and render it totally inaccessible. They prove to be a big threat to your precious data. Such errors usually occur after unexpected system shutdown and hard drive data structure corruption. Losing data [...] [...more]
There are various techniques available in order to safeguard your valuable data, and disk mirroring is the most popular among them. It is the process of create an exact replica of all the data stored on your hard drive. You can easily convert your basic hard drive volumes to mirrored volumes, which replicates your data [...] [...more]
Linux file system is made up of several components and /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab are most important among them. For proper functioning of your file system and computer system, these data structures must be intact and in working state. Any damage to file system components may make it unusable and cause critical data loss situations. In [...] [...more]
