Jonny Defh
Articles by Jonny Defh
March 24, 2011
Linux has gained enough popularity for its new and updated features. Usually, this operating system is considered as the most regularly upgraded application and hence, with Linux, many users feel that they are having the advantage of using the most recent technologies. Even some feel that Linux is f...
March 18, 2011
File system is a very important part of a Linux system. This is a method of organizing data in the storage media of the computer system. All the information about files is stored in the file system. The operating system learns about them from the file system and then, we able to access them. Sometim...
February 18, 2011
File system is the core component of any operating system, and Superblock is the most significant data structure for a Linux. Linux supports various files systems, which include Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4. Superblock comprises of numerous data structures, which are used by the file system manager for mai...
February 16, 2011
Linux is an advanced operating system and over the years, it has given more ease of usage. Since its development, with every passing year, more and more users have opted for Linux. For it's useful and quality features, many industries, entrepreneurs and individual users have shown faith on this comp...
February 11, 2011
MBR or the Master Boot record is the first sector in a partitioned data storage device like hard drive. MBR is usually a 512 byte boot sector containing the primary partition table of the hard disk. In Linux system, MBR also stores the machine code instructions to be executed by the operating system...
February 10, 2011
These days, many users are switching their operating systems from Windows to Linux. Even, some are opting for a dual boot system by installing Linux alongside Windows to use a bit closely before completely migrating to Linux. The reason is pretty simple. Linux is new and with various new features. A...
January 28, 2011
Linux is an open-source operating system, which is widely used by home as well as professional computer users. It is a reliable and stable operating system because of the features that it offers. However, there are some situations, where your Linux hard drive may become inaccessible due to file syst...
January 24, 2011
While working with our favorite Linux system, everyday we write, edit, save and delete several data on the system hard drive. Many users take hard drive of the computer as a permanent storage means or a place to store data before the day-end backup process. However, apart from strong firewalls, an...
January 20, 2011
In computing, Partition is a part of hard drive that works as a different disk and has a separate file system. Disk partitioning is usually done for better management of stored data and to ensure safety of valuable data in case of operating system malfunction. However, there are some circumstances w...
January 18, 2011
In the Linux system, the 'mount' command is used to enable the partitions. Moreover, with the 'mount' command, the Linux OS is triggered to avail the data and information of the particular partition to be accessed. However, sometimes, the command fails to mount the partition and following which, all...
January 14, 2011
Linux is an open-source operating system that has various distributions, which include Fedora Core. It is an OS, which enables you to access latest open source applications. The OS uses a disk structure similar to various other Linux distributions and may face the same problem of corruption as other...
January 11, 2011
Like other computer operating systems, Linux also uses a number of data structures to perform various operations. These data structures include Superblock, root directory. Superblock is one of the most significant data structures, which contains all the basic information, such as file system type, s...
January 11, 2011
Like other computer operating systems, Linux also uses a number of data structures to perform various operations. These data structures include Superblock, root directory. Superblock is one of the most significant data structures, which contains all the basic information, such as file system type, s...
January 05, 2011
Linux is a popular open source UNIX-like operating system that organizes all your files in a tree structure. All the files are rooted at '/' or root directory. In order to attach any file system of other drive to file tree, you are required to mount the drive. You can mount Linux drive using mount c...
December 30, 2010
The Linux hard drive is partitioned in various partitions/volumes for effective management of your valuable data. Linux hard drive volumes start from the boot block where boot information of the operating system is stored. Last two byes of the Linux boot block contains boot block signature. In some ...
December 27, 2010
'Undelete' is an option to recover and restore the lost or deleted files form the computer by rewinding the operation. Without the in-built undelete feature, the retrieval of lost or deleted files is termed as data recovery and in Linux operating system based computers, it is popularly known as Linu...
December 24, 2010
In case of a Linux operating system based computer, sometimes, the system fails to boot following any unsystematic system shut down. The reason can be anything from a possible file system corruption to an operating system malfunction, but at the end of everything, it is your valuable data in the dri...
December 23, 2010
With technological advancement, now you can install and use more than one operating system in a single computer. This type of configuration, which is known as dual-boot, offers you to enjoy the features of multiple operating systems. However, sometimes, while making dual boot systems with different ...
December 22, 2010
Most of the Linux operating systems are open source applications and are regularly modified in order to safe-guard the system against any new threat in the form of viruses, malwares or other technical drawbacks. An user can witness new changes and improvements in Linux almost every day. In spite of ...
December 20, 2010
Though the Linux operating system is considered as very much advanced and is most frequently updated, still data loss situations do happen in Linux systems resulting in the loss or inaccessibility of important data. In such situations, if you do have another copy of your data, then only you can feel...
December 17, 2010
Are you annoyed by the crashing of your Linux system regularly? The reason can be anything, including the infection of a deadly virus/malware, operating system malfunction, corruption/missing of data structure of your hard drive etc. Apart from these, there can be a number of reasons for which your ...
December 16, 2010
The Linux operating system is supposed to be the most regularly updated operating system among its counterparts. Apart from this fact, for its advanced technology and features, a large number of users prefer Linux. But, in Linux, the user can not get everything preloaded just like Windows. There is ...
December 10, 2010
The system library is a collection of programs, subroutines or executables, which can be used by other independent programs. While working in a Linux system, sometimes you fail to start applications or even face problems in accessing the files associated with some applications following error mess...
December 09, 2010
Linux operating system has been invented long ago, There has been various new additions as well as up-gradations to the previous versions of Linux and the development of Ext3 is one such example of the betterment of the operating system. Ext3 or the third extended file system is a journaled file sys...
November 19, 2010
Linux is the UNIX like operating system that uses the Linux kernel of Monolithic type. The OS is being installed on a vast range of tablet computers, mobiles, video game consoles, mainframes, super computers etc. Even, statistics says that as, server OS, LINUX accounts more than 50% of the whole glo...
November 16, 2010
Linux is basically a command based operating system, where, there is a command for each operation and users, who use Linux based computers are usually known as more technically sound individuals. But, however tech savvy one may be, accidental deletion of data is quite common even in case of Lin...
November 11, 2010
This is possible in Linux operating system to install and run the system softwre on a single hard drive partition. Such type of configurations are easy to establish and use. But if you divide your Linux hard disk into multiple volumes, you can effectively manage your critical data and get several ot...
October 30, 2010
LINUX operating system is popular for its new-age advanced technology and features. LINUX facilitates working on the same computer along side Windows. The process of having two different operating systems on a single computer is known as dual boot, where you can have choice to choose either of the l...
October 29, 2010
In the Linux operating system, the fsck is a useful utility that scans the file system for consistency and integrity. It is usually run automatically at the startup if the system detects that it is in an inconsistent state. It checks and repairs the file systems and bad sectors. Although this utilit...
October 28, 2010
A Linux-based hard drive can be divided into primary, logical, swap, or foreign partitions. These partitions are assigned a pre-defined space at the time of installation of the Linux operating system. However, as the requirements of the user change with a passage of time, the users increase or decre...
October 25, 2010
For our convenience of storing data, in our Linux system, we used to make several logical file system(ext3,ext2,ext4 etc) based partitions to our physical hard drive. File system is a programmed set of rules, which is implemented for the storage, manipulation, hierarchical organization, navigation a...
October 21, 2010
File system check' is a system utility that checks the consistency of the file system in LINUX and all UNIX like operating systems. Once, the system detects any inconsistency in it, following any unsystematic system shut down, this tool runs automatically at the booting process. The fsck tool facili...
October 16, 2010
While working on a LINUX based computer system, sometimes, at the start-up or during the shut down, the system suddenly starts behaving abnormally. In the due course, an error message gets flashed on the screen and the system hangs. As all your data lying with the hard drive of the troubled system r...
September 30, 2010
Linux operating system is popular for its robustness and advanced features. Like every other operating system, Linux has its own style of naming different features and here, volume means the logical partition of the hard drive. A hard drive is divided into several logical volumes for a number of rea...
September 21, 2010
The generic boot loader in Linux operating systems is the LiLo (short for LInux LOader). Using LiLo as the boot loader, you can boot the Linux system using any boot device such as hard disk, USB, etc. It is a very useful component that can either be placed in the MBR (Master Boot Record) or in the b...
September 09, 2010
Among the tech geeks, Linux operating system based computers are considered more robust and safe in terms of data security, as the Linux versions are more often updated with technology changes. Moreover, their frequent upgradation, keeps them comparatively free from virus/ malware intrusion. These a...
September 03, 2010
In digital world, every single day, you can witness a new technological advancement, even over the advanced of the things. The 'caching' technique is one of the instances that has been devised to increase the efficiency and speed of the system performance. Through caching, data can be temporarily st...
August 19, 2010
Being part of this e-age, we must have witnessed data loss every now and then. Though LINUX is not new to us, for its command mode and less user friendlier user interface, users are less comfortable at using it. Furthermore, if there happens any problem leading to data loss, the panic is beyond expl...
August 16, 2010
Though LINUX is still less used in comparison to Windows, it is known for its advanced andt improved features. Almost everyday, you can witness a modification to improve your LINUX version. With increased number of facilities, safe usage and better programming LINUX is gaining popularity. However, ...
August 13, 2010
When a Linux system starts up, the system is started with LiLo (LInux LOader), which is a system file. After that the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) section, after doing some tests, transfers the control to the MBR (Master Boot Record) where the LILO is stored. One big plus of using it is that the...
August 11, 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 files. If these methods do not work, then the ta...
August 10, 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 BIOS passes the execution of the machine code...
August 06, 2010
The partition is considered as a piece of logical division of the disk space, which runs on some operating system. Partition table is located at the first sector (cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1, MBR) of each hard disk and It memorizes the information about sizes and locations of partitions. Hence,...
July 30, 2010
In the Linux systems, the ext2 (short for second extended file system) file system is used extensively by numerous users. This file system is very efficient when dealing with real large disk partitions. In addition, when the ext2 file system is mounted then all the information that is stored in the ...
July 29, 2010
GNU GRUB or the GRand Unified Bootloader is a boot loader package from GNU with the implementation of multi boot specification. This enables an user to install multiple operating system in a single computer and choose the one, which is to be run when the computer starts. GRUB facilitates a rich set ...
July 14, 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 their significance to your business. Most of...
July 12, 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 actions on any files and directories stored on y...
July 09, 2010
All the data files that are accessible in Linux based computers are placed in a big tree, called root directory and denoted as '/', in an organized form. These data files might be spread out over various devices. The mount command in Linux operating system allows you to attach a file system on a dat...
July 06, 2010
Linux is one of the most used open-sourced operating systems that has carved its own niche among its faithful users. It is fast, easy-to-use, and reliable. Also, it is part of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack that provides a lot of advantages to the developers and users. However, it has on...
July 02, 2010
Is your current Linux drive partition structure not fulfilling storage requirements? Do you need to repartition your Linux disk? Linux enables you to do this using 'sfdisk' command-line utility. This tool has four uses: list hard drive partitions, size of particular partition, check partitions on ha...
June 30, 2010
The ext3 or third extended file system is the successor of the ext2 file system. It has got many features that corresponds to it being a reliable system from earlier versions. One of such features is the journaling feature that keeps track of all the changes that occur writing to the disk. But even ...
June 23, 2010
The ext4 file system in Linux systems is the successor of the ext3 file system. As ext3 was extensively used for quite a long period, the ext4 file system is loaded with lot of new changes to overcome the limitations of ext3 file system. Few important data structures have been added in the ext4 file...
June 18, 2010
The Linux system is an Open source operating system and it is more secure than other OS. It provides the freedom to administer your system by taking care of the look & feel and the applications to be installed, etc. However, as nothing is perfect in this world, the Linux systems too can get corrupt...
June 17, 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 system, which can be Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, or any...
June 14, 2010
The Ext3 (Third Extended) file system is an advanced journaling file system of Linux operating system. Ext3 is the default file system in various distributions of Linux operating system, such as Fedora, Debian, and Red Hat. It provides improved data integrity, easy translation, speed, and data avail...
June 09, 2010
A Linux file system is a collection of various files and folders, which is stored in a separate disk partition. The entire disk partition is divided into various file system blocks, which are used for storing either the user data or the metadata. The metadata can be referred as the repository that c...
June 08, 2010
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 ...
May 29, 2010
The ext4 (Fourth Extended File System) is the successor of the ext3 file system, which is a journaled file system. It was developed as for backward compatible extensions to remove the 64-bit data storage limits. Being a journaled system, it is always a safe bet to use ext4-based systems in a product...
May 29, 2010
The journaled ext3 system is an extremely powerful file system and makes the data very organized as opposed to its predecessor, ext2 file system. It is so because the file system remains consistent even after a system crash or unexpected power failure. You do not need to perform lengthy checks after...
May 27, 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 problem occurs due missing or corrupt data struc...
May 27, 2010
The Ext2 (second extended) file system is an advanced file system for Linux kernel. It is a replacement of Ext file system. It is possible to resize the Ext2 file system, while it is mounted and system is using it. This is possible using the ext2online utility. The process of resizing the file syste...
May 25, 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 main causes for corruption in file system (eithe...
May 24, 2010
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a part of Linux operating system kernel, which manages hard drives and other mass storage devices. It is a way of allocating disk space into various volumes, which can easily be resized or extended instead of hard drive partitions. You can not place Linux /boot/ parti...
May 21, 2010
Like other computer operating systems, Linux also comprise of various components, which include Superblock. Superblock is a significant metadata of the Linux operating system, which describes file systems on the Linux hard drive. The system components have interdependency and work together to keep y...
May 20, 2010
The ext2 (second extended) is one of the file systems of Linux operating systems. It is used in several Linux distributions and is the first choice for flash-based storage media such as SD cards, pen drives, etc. This is due to lack of its support for journaling, which minimizes the number of writes...
May 19, 2010
In the Linux operating system, fsck is a useful utility that scans the file system for consistency and integrity and on finding errors repairs them. It usually runs automatically at the time of startup if the system detects that the file system is in an inconsistent state. This utility runs both in ...
May 17, 2010
Are you finding difficulties in mounting your Linux system disk? The problem could be due to corruption in the file system. To address such issues, Linux OS provides fsck utility. It is a command-line utility, which checks integrity and consistency of the Linux file system. In addition, it finds err...
May 15, 2010
Today, the Linux operating system has carved a niche of its own. It has got a dedicated category of users who will happily pay for it if it ever comes with a price tag. The Linux system is secure, reliable, fast, and does not require hardware/software drivers to install them on the system. Having sa...
May 14, 2010
The Linux system is an open sourced operating system that is used by people all over the world. Unlike Windows and Apple operating systems, it is not a sole proprietary of a single organization. In fact, over 1,000 developers from at least 100 different companies have contributed to its each update....
May 11, 2010
The ext3 file system of Linux operating system is the successor of ext2, and is a journaled file system. Being a journaled system, it keeps track of all the changes that happen to the system before committing it to the main file system. The ext3 file system is also considered to be relatively simple...
May 07, 2010
The Linux system is an open sourced operating system that is used by people all over the world. Unlike Windows and Apple operating systems, it is not a sole proprietary of a single organization. In fact, over 1,000 developers from at least 100 different companies have contributed to its each update....
May 06, 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. This behavior leads to data loss. Data loss ...
May 04, 2010
The Linux system is one of the most used operating systems in the world. It is an open source operating system that is much more secure than other operating systems. It is also very economical as it can be set up even with obsolete hardware components such as i386 or i486 processor. The Linux system...
April 30, 2010
Similar to all other operating systems, Linux can also become unbootable at next start after an unexpected power outage. The reason for such a behavior is that such events can directly affect the metadata of your root partition and damage it eventually. During such situations, if the user loses data...
April 30, 2010
Like other computer operating systems, Linux also indicates system problems in the form of error messages. The problems may occur at startup or while working on your system. In some error messages, the actual cause of the problem and possible solution is provided. However, some errors do not contain...
April 30, 2010
The ext3 (third extended file system) is a file system used by Linux kernel. It is a journaled file system, which is a default file system for many Linux distributions. Its major advantage over the ext2 file system, its predecessor, is journaling that improves the reliability of the file system. It ...
April 30, 2010
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 a...
April 29, 2010
The Ext4 (Fourth Extended File System) is an advanced journaling file system, developed for Linux operating system. It is successor of Ext3 file system. Ext4 has removed the 64-bit limits of Ext3 file system as it was developed as series of the backward compatible extensions. It has great stability ...
April 29, 2010
One such metadata structure is the superblock, which is very essential for the health of the Linux system. A file system cannot be mounted if you are not able to access the superblock. This case arises if the superblock is corrupted. Corruption can happen because of various reasons such as virus inf...
April 21, 2010
Ext2 (second extended) file system is a file system designed to be used in Linux kernel. It facilitates high-level security, reliability, and data management options to the system. Although, it is a highly secure system, it does sometimes get affected by virus infections, which in some cases can de...
April 20, 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 directory partition and a swap partition. A partiti...
April 19, 2010
In Linux systems, all the system processes are carried out by the "init" (short for initialization) program. It runs as a daemon in the system and, usually, has process ID (PID) 1. During the boot process, ´init´ is the last process to be executed. Sometimes, the system is unable to boot...
April 17, 2010
Are you unable to start any application or access data on Linux computer? Are you getting library errors while starting any application or retrieving data from the hard drive? This behavior may take place due to corrupt or missing library files of your Linux operating system.
In such situations, ...
April 16, 2010
Ext3 is the most commonly used and stable file system of Linux operating system. This journaled Linux file system divides hard drive space into blocks. These blocks are managed in block groups. Every block group is defined by an individual data structure, which stores critical information, known as...
April 15, 2010
In order to start or boot your Linux computer without a system or boot disk, you generally need to install boot loader. It is the first program, which runs when your computer boots. This is in charge of loading and transferring control to Linux kernel. Kernel initializes the remaining part of operat...
April 14, 2010
Like every other operating system, Linux computer also contains a system or boot volume, which is used to boot your system. Boot device is one on which all the boot files and Linux operating system are installed. In some cases, you may encounter boot errors while trying to start Linux-based computer...
April 12, 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 partitions and data is arranged, is known ...
April 09, 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 corrupted volume and resolve such issues, but ...
April 08, 2010
Are you facing file system structure inconsistency errors? Are you unable to boot your Linux computer? This is due to problems with Linux file system. In such cases, operating system can not get required information to boot and thus you face odd behavior. This behavior renders your entire system ina...
April 01, 2010
A root file system in Linux operating system contains all necessary information about the files required at the time of booting the system. This file system is saved on a partition where the root directory is located. Corruption in root file system can be due to improper system shutdown, operating s...
March 31, 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 errors, virus infection, and file...
March 30, 2010
Ext4 or Fourth Extended file system is an advanced and reliable Linux file system, which is successor of Ext3 file system. It is a journaling file system, which has emerged very quickly. It adds numerous performance improvements and remove the 64-bit data storage limitations. However, in case of sys...
March 29, 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 reduces the need of system repairs, and possib...
March 25, 2010
An unbootable Linux system can be a result of superblock corruption. A superblock is a an integral part of Linux file system, which saves information related to file system. Corruption in superblock primarily occurs due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, and file system damage. In such ca...
March 23, 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 becomes inaccessible after the superb...
March 22, 2010
Linux partitions are basically of three types: swap, root, and home. The swap partition is used for Linux swap space, root partition for Linux and the installed applications, and home partitions for holding /home directory i.e. data. When it comes to data accessibility, the latter two partitions are...
March 20, 2010
Are you resizing your Linux hard drive partitions using Gparted utility? Create an absolute backup of your valuable data before your proceed. Gparted provides you advanced and easy methods to perform a number of operations on your Linux volumes. However, in some cases, re-sizing the partition with G...
March 17, 2010
Superblock is one of the most common component of metadata structure in ext2 file system. It saves critical information which is used by the file system manager to systematically manage the file system. Corruption in superblock can occur due to improper system shutdown, file system corruption, virus...
March 16, 2010
EXT3, one of the most commonly used file system by Linux Kernel, is used in numerous Linux distributions. Although a reliable file system, it is prone to corruption, that can occur due to improper system shutdown, virus attack, operating system malfunction, and many similar reasons. In most cases of...
March 15, 2010
Is your Linux system unusable due to file system errors? Are you unable to fix the file system problems using fsck command-line utility? Does Linux operating system prompts you to manually run the fsck? This behavior occurs when fsck fails to fix the file system issues. It makes your system unrespon...
March 11, 2010
Linux file system also contains critical information related to the files saved on your hard drive like that of other operating system. The structure of the Linux file system is divided into various blocks, which are organized into block groups. These block groups consists of block group descriptor ...
March 11, 2010
A file system error message on a Linux-based computer system occurs when the file system gets corrupted. The corruption may be due to improper system shutdown, superblock corruption, operating system malfunction, application crash, and virus infection. The system becomes unbootable after any such fi...
March 10, 2010
Safeguarding your confidential data from unauthorized access is a major concern for modern businesses. To prevent unauthorized access of your private data, Linux provides a data encryption technique- LUKS. The LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is a hard drive encryption standard that guards your data b...
March 10, 2010
Linux is a popular operating system, which offers a wide range of features to effectively manage data on the hard drive with its file systems, including Ext2. It is an open-source operating system that enables you to customize the operating system as per your requirement. However, in some cases, you...
March 08, 2010
Do you need to add a new disk to LVM volume for expanding it? Or, are you trying to add a new disk on LVM with zero redundancy? You must create complete backup of your precious data before trying out any of the above things. Adding a new disk to LVM volume and then expanding it may cause catastrophi...
February 25, 2010
A superblock in Linux operating system comprises of critical information (type size, and status) related to file system. It also includes information about the metadata structures. Since, the superblock contains such vital information, Linux always maintains at least one copy of the superblock in th...
February 20, 2010
The Ext4 (Fourth Extended File System) was released in Linux 2.6.28 as a functionally stable and complete file system. This is a journaling file system, which is a successor of Ext3 file system. Ext4 was developed as a sequence of the backward compatible extensions for removing 64-bit data storage l...
February 18, 2010
Are you unable to mount your Linux hard drive volume? Are you facing superblock, inode, or file system corruption like error messages while booting your Linux system? Such situations are caused by corruption of Linux hard drive metadata structures. This behavior of Linux operating system renders all...
February 16, 2010
A system boot error message is a nightmare for any computer user. In most cases, the user is unable to bypass the error message, resulting in inaccessibility of information/data saved in the hard drive. A Linux based system too becomes unbootable after such error messages. Few main causes for the oc...
February 15, 2010
A kernel in Linux operating system is like a mediator between the hardware and programs. The memory management program ensures a systematic contact between the hardware and the programs, and all programs get appropriate share in the processor's cycle. A Kernel is upgraded mainly when you need a devi...
February 11, 2010
Are you facing "Read-only file system" error while booting your Linux computer? Does your system refuse to boot up in dual-boot configuration with Microsoft Windows operating system? When you encounter this behavior, system can not boot up and your data becomes inaccessible. At the same time, system...
February 10, 2010
Ext3 (Third Extended File System) is a journaling and advanced file system, used for the Linux operating system. If your system faces improper system shutdown or system crash, file system journaling empowers endues it to recover without losing data. Ext3 file system contains a number of significant ...
February 02, 2010
Are you unable to mount your Linux hard drive volume? The problem could be due to corruption the Linux hard drive data structures. To sort out such problems, Linux provides fsck utility. It is a command-line utility, which checks integrity and consistency of Linux file system, finds errors, and trie...
January 29, 2010
In Linux operating system, myrescue is an utility to retrieve still-readable information from damaged hard drive. This Linux Data Recovery tool is similar to the dd_rescue, however it attempts to quickly get out of corrupted area to handle undamaged part first. After extracting data from the undamag...
January 28, 2010
In Linux operating system, you can check the integrity of file system and hard drive. This command resolves majority of issues with hard drive and file system, avoiding need of Linux Data Recovery. This command-line utility runs in five phases. In first phase, it checks data blocks and their size, i...
January 25, 2010
Data Security is one of the major concerns for the computer administrator. To protect your data from unauthorized access, Encryption is used. It is a technique to transform your data in an unreadable form, until you have decryption key. In Mac OS X, you can encrypt your data using the FileVault that...
January 20, 2010
Modern distributions of Linux operating systems use UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) to uniquely identify hard drive or other data storage devices, in place of the conventional block names like /dev/sdb and /dev/hda1. It is due to the fact that UUID is never modified, even if the hard drive is s...
January 16, 2010
In Linux operating system, the hard drive volumes are mounted by the disk labels, in place of the device paths. It is a quite effective approach because the disk path and name can get changed when you boot your system and so can create a number of complications for your system. Therefore, the labels...
January 14, 2010
The hard drives can be divided in one or more parts, known as partitions. The division of hard drive is described in partition table, stored in sector 0 of hard drive. Linux operating system requires at least one hard drive partition, namely for the root file system. It may use the swap files and sw...
January 13, 2010
Data loss is a horrifying reality that may happen to any computer system, irrespective to the hardware and software configuration. Even the most reliable hardware (Apple Mac) and the most stable operating system (Mac OS X) may fail at any point of time and cause critical data loss situations. In ord...
January 11, 2010
The term synchronization talks about one of two distinct but related processes: Synchronization of data and the synchronization of processes. The synchronization process means to concept that many individual processes are to join up or handshake at a certain point for reaching an agreement or perfor...
January 04, 2010
The Linux file systems are extremely powerful and they work great, particularly the Ext3 file system. It is an extremely robust and mature file system.
December 29, 2009
All the files and folders that you delete in Mac OS X from Finder first go to 'Trash'. This adds a level of protection against data loss in case of accidental deletion.
December 29, 2009
Linux Superblock is an important data structure of its file system. The Superblock comprises of basic information, like file system size, type, status (mounted or umounted) etc. The file system manager uses this information to maintain the file system. The file system size described in Superblock s...
December 23, 2009
Ext2 is widely used and powerful file system of Linux operating system. It provides high-level security, reliability, and data management. Space in the Ext2 file system is split into blocks, and managed into the block groups, correspondent to the cylinder groups in UFS (Unix File System). Every Bloc...
December 21, 2009
In Linux operating system, fsck (file system check) is a command-line utility that allows you to check file system and hard drive integrity. Using this tool, you can even fix some minor errors of file system. Generally, it runs automatically during system boot when Linux detects that the file system...
December 18, 2009
In Linux operating system, the file system stores all critical information about files located on hard drive. Without file system, operating system can not located and access data from the hard drive as the operating system accesses file system pointer to locate data. Thus, for proper working of you...
December 16, 2009
File System is the most critical data structure of any operating system. It manages all of your files and directories on your hard drive. Different operating systems have different file system and HFS Plus is the most popular among them. It is a general file system for Mac OS X operating system. Thi...
November 24, 2009
The Extensible Firmware Interface or EFI is a specification, which defines the application interface between Mac OS X and the platform firmware. The Extensible Firmware Interface boot procedure includes a boot manager that is built-in platform firmware. But in some of the Mac OS X systems, boot driv...
November 21, 2009
In Mac OS X operating system, the File Vault is a utility that protects your critical and confidential data and information from unauthorized access. This tool come in-built with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and later versions. The File Vault is a significant application that uses encrypted file system tha...
November 19, 2009
In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Boot Camp is an effective tool, which help you to install Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP on Intel-based Mac computers. It guides you through non-destructive hard drive re-partitioning and using Mac OS X disk to install MS Windows drivers.
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November 17, 2009
HFS+ or HFS Plus is a reliable and widely used file system of Mac OS X operating system. The file system is made up of a number of components and Catalog File is the most important among them. Catalog File keeps record of all the files and directories. This is a B-tree that is divided in fixed-size ...
November 12, 2009
In Mac OS X, the DVD RAM denotes to DVD format, where you can repeatedly erase and record data. Such disks could be used by all the DVD RAM drive installed on your Mac computer. You can use Mac OS X to record data to and erase data from the DVD drive. This is an additional feature added to Mac OS X....
November 06, 2009
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 caus...
November 02, 2009
In Microsoft Windows computer, boot record is the most critical data structure that enables booting of your system and make your system usable. In some situations, when you start your Microsoft Windows computer, you might find some errors related to missing boot record. These errors prevent you from...
October 30, 2009
In some situations, where you attempt to start your Microsoft Windows XP computer, it stops responding. Sometimes it gives you some STOP error messages or simply shows a black or blue screen that does not allow you to log into your system. This behavior of Windows computer renders all of your missio...
October 28, 2009
In Microsoft Windows, Disk Administrator is a useful tool that provides you a number of options to manage your hard drive. Using this feature, you can delete, shrink, format or merge hard drive partitions and assign drive letters. But in some cases, when it writes disk signatures to the disk partiti...
October 26, 2009
A significant bug in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could affect you, if you have upgraded from Mac OS X Leopard to Mac OS X Snow Leopard with guest account enabled. This bug, although difficult to reproduce, could result into irretrievable loss of user account after using the guest account. When this p...
October 23, 2009
CHKDSK (CheckDisk) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating system, which ensures the file system integrity. It detects and fixes minor file system logical errors. The utility can also check hard drive for bad sectors and other physical errors. The chkdsk operation is performed when ...
October 20, 2009
Microsoft Windows XP supports two hard drive file systems: FAT (File Allocation Table) and NTFS (New Technology File System). NTFS5 is the latest development by Microsoft in the series of file systems. It is more advanced than previous versions and provides better performance. To take benefit of the...
October 16, 2009
In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can expend or resize the hard drive partitions using third party utilities. These tools can be used on both Dynamic disks and Basic disks. Before you can run these utilities, you must list and then select object to give it focus. In some cases, when you exp...
October 14, 2009
The kernel serves as the core of a computer operating system, including Mac OS X, located at a protected area of memory. It provides basic system services, such as memory management, file management, Input/Output management, process management and more. For a Mac system to boot and function properly...
October 09, 2009
An improper or disrupted Mac OS X upgrade can leave your system in unstable state. Alternatively, you might experience issues running applications or performing other system related tasks. For instance, you may encounter problems downloading email attachments. To fix them, one of the prime workaroun...
October 07, 2009
Safari, the Apple Web Browser, is a feature-rich product with all modern functionalities. Safari 4 is a new release giving improved look and fast usage, better than its predecessors. But in some cases, installing the release proves susceptible to host system. After installing Safari 4, the Mac OS X ...
October 05, 2009
A Mac OS X computer system might behave abruptly after you install any major Mac OS X update. In severe situations, the computer might fail to boot. To solve these problems, you might need to reinstall the operating system which deletes and causes data inaccessibility. If a valid data backup is not ...
October 01, 2009
The hard disk storage space is allowed to be partitioned into maximum of four primary partitions. These primary partitions are defined by respective 16-byte entries that form the hard disk partition table. It is located in disk MBR (Master Boot Record). When you install Windows or any service pack o...
September 25, 2009
You might experience several issues while using Boot Camp, which might compel you to reformat the entire hard disk. In such cases, you require a complete data backup or a powerful Mac Data Recovery tool to recover seemingly lost data.
For example, consider that you try to use Boot Camp to instal...
September 19, 2009
You might experience several disk space issues with your Windows based computer system. On occasion, you might observe Windows Explorer or Disk Management utility showing less amount of hard disk space, when actually the disk space is quite large. To deal with such problems, you might need to delet...
September 17, 2009
Aperture is a Mac OS X photography software. To add data protection to the application, Apple includes a feature called Vault that archives the image library. Using vault feature, you can create backups of your library on any external device and restore it, when required. On occasion, you cannot res...
September 15, 2009
After you boot into your Mac system and start it, you generally come across the login window or Finder. But if the startup process doesn't accomplish successfully and you observe unexpected system behavior, you might need to perform 'Erase and Install' to solve it. If a valid backup is not available...
September 11, 2009
Mac OS X installer is an application that extracts and then installs all the files out of .pkg packages. It allows installing Mac OS X. But at times, you might fail to do so on a particular volume. The volume might appear 'grayed out' or dimmed in Mac OS X installer and thus, you cannot install Mac ...
September 09, 2009
When you upgrade a basic disk to dynamic disk in Windows 2000, the legacy partition table entries, called hard-linked entries, are still retained in its MBR. Windows use these entries to recognize them while performing a new installation. But this behavior sometimes causes errors for Disk Management...
September 07, 2009
A standard partition table can hold information about only of four partitions. It implies that at one time, a hard disk could be partitioned into maximum of four partitions, called primary partitions. However, you can also create an extended partition that stores information about other partitions. ...
September 01, 2009
Microsoft Windows XP operating system supports two hard drive file systems: NTFS (New Technology File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). NTFS is more advanced than FAT and thus provides high performance. To avail benefits of high performance, several users convert a FAT hard drive into NTFS ha...
August 27, 2009
In Mac OS X, Time Machine is a powerful and advanced backup tool, that was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is designed to work with Time Capsule. It create incremental and secure backup of all sorts of files, which can be restored when required. Time Machine allows you to restore entir...
August 25, 2009
Sometimes, when you try to access data from a Windows hard drive or attempt to store data on drive and install software on it, the hard drive could not be read. You come across disk read errors and thus the installation or accession fails. This behavior renders all of your hard drive partitions inac...
August 20, 2009
Intel based computer systems rely on system BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) for loading and executing the bootstrap code. BIOS bootstrap function generates the int 0x19 that loads first sector of hard drive in memory at the segment address 0000:7C00H. First physical sector of hard drive is known as...
August 17, 2009
There are some situations where your Mac OS X hard drive might become unreadable and stored data might get rendered inaccessible. This problem could occur due to corruption to the hard drive logical structure, which might be because of file system corruption, improper system shutdown, virus infectio...
August 13, 2009
In computing, the term upgrade denotes the replacement of product with newer version of same product. This is generally used in application or system software for replacement with better or newer version to improve their characteristics or bring them up to date. Like other software vendors, Microsof...
August 10, 2009
A Mac OS X hard drive can be divided into several volumes. These volumes work as individual drives and can be used to store different kinds of data and software. Every Mac volumes is made up of four general items: files, directories, file threads and directory threads. In order to define these items...
August 04, 2009
When you boot a Linux based system, it runs a boot-time fsck, if find any inconsistencies with the file system. /etc/fstab is the file that contains the descriptive information about disk file systems. So, any errors in the file could also result in fsck errors. However, if all the entries in /etc/f...
July 28, 2009
Disk Utility is an extremely important and useful tool in Mac OS X that is used to carry out a number of hard drive related operations and disk resizing is one of them. Using Disk Utility, you can easily resize your Mac OS X hard drive without losing your valuable data stored on the drive. But in so...
July 23, 2009
Linux superblock is responsible for holding general information about the file system. An Ext3 file system is different from a ReiserFS file system because they have dissimilar file system type, size and mount status defined in their corresponding superblocks. Among other information, superblock als...
July 20, 2009
MobileMe users can store their precious movies, digital pictures, songs and personal files either on Mac OS X hard drive or on the iDisk. From iDisk, you can access all of your valuable data remotely. The iDisk, which integrates with Mac OS X, looks like a network drive and is mounted automatically ...
July 15, 2009
Linux is considered to be a relatively reliable operating system. But if crashes unexpectedly due to power outage or kernel bug, it can catch odds of getting corrupted. The next time when you restart your Linux-based system, fsck runs and automatically checks the file system for errors. If it fails,...
July 10, 2009
Kernel is a key component of Mac OS X operating system. It is responsible for managing system resources and allowing applications to be executed. In some cases, this core component of operating system becomes faulty and you come across "Kernel Panic" and some error message while starting your comput...
July 08, 2009
When you boot a Linux based system, the first thing that occurs is initialization of your hardware. After this, the Grub boot loader loads from MBR (Master Boot Record) of hard drive based on its configuration. You might see a boot menu displaying all the operating systems in a list from which you c...
July 02, 2009
The final step of Linux boot process is init process, which starts a system process defined in /etc/ initab file. init config file then directs the init process and the shell script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit runs. Linux distros put some startup scripts in rc subdirectories, particularly at /etc/rc.d to t...
June 26, 2009
In computing, kernel is the core component of an operating system. Kernel´s responsibilities include managing system resources (communication between software and hardware components). As an essential part of computer operating system (such as Mac OS X), the Kernel offers lowest-level abstract...
June 23, 2009
The DVD RAM refers to a DVD format, where you can constantly store and delete data. Such DVD disks can be used by most of the DVD RAM drive install Mac OS X computer. You can use Mac OS X to format the DVD RAM and write new data on it.This is a new feature added in Mac OS X operating system. In some...
June 20, 2009
Root device refers to the device from which a Linux system boots from. While booting if you are getting errors that system cannot access or open the root device, you might need to install a fresh copy of operating system. Thus, you are always suggested to maintain a good data backup of all valuable ...
June 18, 2009
When you start a Linux system, BIOS first select the boot device and load the boot sector. Further, it looks to load the kernel image, after which the setup code runs to execute the Kernel. If your system is prompting that it can´t find the kernel image, the system will fail to boot. One of th...
June 16, 2009
Mandrake Linux or Mandriva Linux is the operating system that uses RPM Package Manager. Since it offers advanced functionalities and various security features, this operating system is popular among users. But sometimes, you find that a Mandrake-based system fails to boot and you cannot access the s...
June 12, 2009
When you connect an external hard drive to your Mac, the drive may not be recognized and you might receive drive inaccessibility error messages. It could be due to logical damage of the hard drive and may cause data loss. You need to opt for Mac Data Recovery tools to resolve such situations. In thi...
June 11, 2009
The Operating system is the most essential part of a computer system. Operating system vendors periodically release updates to increase their performance and add new functions. In Ubuntu Linux you can use apt-get for complete up-gradation. Apt-get is a powerful command line utility, which is used to...
June 09, 2009
When you connect an external hard drive to your Mac, the drive may not be recognized and you might receive drive inaccessibility error messages. It could be due to logical damage of the hard drive and may cause data loss. You need to opt for Mac Data Recovery tools to resolve such situations. In thi...
June 05, 2009
At times, when you attempt to boot your Linux system, you encounter an error message. The reason behind a boot time error message depends on the issue, which can be a software or hardware problem. An error message generally appears because of superblock corruption, file system (viz. ext2, ext3 or Re...
May 20, 2009
In Linux and UNIX operating systems, daemon is the computer program that runs in the background other than direct control of a user. You can use these daemons to configure your hardware (like devfsd) and perform tasks like scheduled run of cron in your Linux system. But sometimes, these programs fai...
May 13, 2009
Under certain situations, your Mac operating system can not read data from an external hard drive. The problem could be due to damaged or corrupted hard drive metadata structure and other similar issues. Such situations make all your critical and valuable data inaccessible and cause serious data los...
May 08, 2009
Intel and PowerPC Macs use different native schemes. Where Intel-based Mac systems are compatible with Apple_partition_scheme, PowerPC-based Mac can only be used with GUID_partition_scheme. These incompatibility issues can create data loss situations. Hence to recover the lost data, you need to use ...
April 29, 2009
The advanced computer users divide their hard drive into various partitions. These can be primary, extended and logical partition. The process of creating various partitions on a hard drive is known as partitioning. While partitioning provides you various benefits, if not performed systematically, i...
April 24, 2009
Mac OS X based systems allow making HFS Wrapper for its volumes. An HFS+ volume can be made to contain within an HFS volume in a manner that makes it look like HFS volume and not HFS Plus volume to computer system. It proves beneficial in systems with no support to HFS+ volumes. So if system´s...
April 22, 2009
Upgradation of Linux operating system enables you to use the advanced features provided in the upgraded version. After upgradation process is complete, you need to restart the system. Once the computer is restarted, you might receive an error message which does not allow you to boot the computer. Fu...
April 20, 2009
When you start your Mac computer, you may get ´damaged or incompatible hard drive´ error messages. These errors make your system unbootable or the hard drive inaccessible. It results into critical data loss situations and lead to Mac Data Recovery. After unexpected system shutdown or som...
April 13, 2009
Mac hard drives sometimes show unexpected behavior related to hard disk space. Users report that though the hard disk has fair amount of free space available, it incorrectly reports being full. As the Mac hard drive fails to correctly deal with free hard disk space, this result into issues like fail...
April 08, 2009
The computer is an essential part of our today´s life, we can store every single bit of data on it. But when sometimes the computer program that is loaded in your computer and copy itself and affect your computer without your knowledge or permission. However the word virus is generally used, t...
March 31, 2009
In ext3 file system, journal is the most used and important file, since it is a journaled file system. But due to a drawback that ext3 doesn´t support checksumming while writing to the journal, file system becomes prone to corruption and hence may require Linux Data Recovery. In general terms,...
March 27, 2009
Alike other operating systems´ kernel, Linux Kernel is the resource of various services to the system. While the Linux Kernel errors occur, it generally indicates problems with file system or some memory that it can´t get access to. In some cases, the solution may require Linux Data Reco...
March 24, 2009
Ext3 is a journaled file system used for many Linux distributions. Journaling feature helps keeping the system afar most of Linux Recovery needs that can occur due to unexpected system shutdown, file system errors, application (like virus) issues etc. But the issues like excessive ext3 fragmentation...
March 19, 2009
Ext2 and ext3 are the two most widely used file systems used for Linux. Superblock is the significant metadata structure that holds information like file system type, its status and size and information about other metadata structures. So if due to some errors file system becomes inaccessible, the r...
March 17, 2009
Ext2 and ext3 file systems space is divided into blocks, which are further organized into what we call as block groups. For each group block, there is a data structure that defines it and contains valuable information, called group block descriptor. This data structure helps accessing block groups a...
March 12, 2009
Windows Vista has its own set of improved features and installing it in dual-boot configuration with any Windows older operating system like XP gives the flexibility to use both your new and old software versions. Another main reason is the better performance in the older and less resource hungry op...
March 04, 2009
Your computer hard drive may encounter problems at any point of time irrespective of the operating system and hardware resources you are using. Most of the operating systems provide inbuilt disk repair tools to overcome such problems. For example, Mac includes Disk Utility and fsck to fix these issu...
February 27, 2009
Though Linux is among the safest and the most reliable computer operating systems that are available today and it is designed to provide high stability, but data might also get lost from Linux systems. Data loss is an unforeseen situation that may cause damage to valuable files and settings on any p...
February 21, 2009
Time Machine is the backup utility, introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The tool can carry out incremental backups of files on internal as well as external hard drives and hence helps avoiding Mac Data Recovery needs. In order to backup data to external hard drive, it is required that hard driv...
February 18, 2009
Apple Safari is powerful web browser, which comes built-in with Mac OS X 10.2.8 and above. This is a feature rich web browser, which has been built around WebKit open source project. But, some users face a problem while using the web browser, which causes the system to hang. Also, when the web brows...
February 13, 2009
Mac OS X 10.5 or Leopard is a high-featured operating system, developed by Apple. There are few applications in Mac OS X 10.5 which provide services, through which the user can use the features of these applications while working in some other application. Users can open the application´s menu...
February 11, 2009
Linux allows you to have one or more physical volumes on a single machine. Logical volumes can fit completely on physical volumes, even though you never unequivocally create them as adjacent. A logical volume could take part of all physical volumes. Sometimes, due to hardware failure, software malfu...
February 10, 2009
Windows 2000 and later operating systems include a feature called ´Write Behind Caching´. This feature is meant to cache the data to be written and actually write the data when the system is idle. Also termed as delayed writes or lazy writes, if the feature is enabled, then it can help i...
February 07, 2009
UnionFS is a Linux file system service that allows users to have the union mount for other Linux file systems. The union mount is the procedure of mounting several Linux file systems simultaneously. All these mounted file systems would then work as a solitary file system. The function of UnionFS is ...
February 05, 2009
BaseSystem.pkg file is one of the important package files which is created when Mac OS X is installed, used by Panther (Mac OS X v10.3) and Tiger (Mac OS X v10.4) to extract files from and is located in /Library/Receipts folder. The information stored in the Receipts folder is used by Disk Utility t...
February 02, 2009
After an unexpected shutdown, when you try to start your Linux computer, your system may refuse to boot and you might experience some error messages. The error message may sound like the followings:"Your system appears to have shut down uncleanlyPress Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrit...
January 30, 2009
Mac OS X supports HFS series of file systems. At first, comes the HFS, which is referred as the standard one and has been used as the primary file system until Mac 8.1. Then, HFS was replaced by its extended version called HFS plus (HFS+). This file system supports many advanced features, which were...
January 27, 2009
Disk utility advantages Tiger users to resize the partitions, without loss of data. So if you are resizing Mac hard drives, Disk Utility offers you an easy way. But users keep reporting that while doing so, they get some strange error messages which state that there is no enough space on the drive, ...
January 22, 2009
Mac partitions are what we refer as Mac volumes. For partitioning the Mac hard drive, you need to initialize it and carry out the further process, either through Disk Utility or Drive Setup. These utilities perform disk related tasks.After the disk has been partitioned, all the related volume inform...
January 16, 2009
The basic purpose of a computer system is to store, organize and maintain the files. The File System is the key component to achieve this. This is only possible with the help of file system to let the operating system access data in an ordered manner. FAT, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3 and HFS are a few examples...
January 12, 2009
The Operating system is the most essential part of a computer system. Operating system vendors periodically release updates to increase their performance and add new functions. In Ubuntu Linux you can use apt-get for complete up-gradation. Apt-get is a powerful command line utility, which is used to...
January 06, 2009
Because Mac OS X is a complete and sophisticated operating system, the problems faced by the users could be equally complex. A Mac system generally crashes with the system error, either at startup or while running.
Instead of showing error codes, the Mac translated the error code to appropriate ...
January 03, 2009
Despite the hard disk recovery awareness being spread, the common misbelieve that the process only constitutes replacing the damaged parts is still covering the users´ minds. Believe me, if it were that easy, then no company would have cost a high price. Hard disk recovery technology is always...
December 29, 2008
Outlook users may frequently found themselves around a confusing question-Smaller PST Files or A Single Large PST? So let´s try to solve it here.Actually, by default, MS Outlook has a single file called PST, which stores all the incoming and outgoing e-mails, calendar, appointments, tasks and ...
December 22, 2008
Data loss is the worst scenario for a computer user which could occur at anytime. It could be due to accidental deletion, hard drive formatting, virus attack, natural disaster, head crash, file system corruption and the like. Let´s go through some data recovery suggestions, which may help you ...
December 24, 2008
There are some situations in Linux operating system where you can not mount the file system and logical volumes to access data from it. It specifically occurs in dual boot systems. When you attempt to repair the file system on your root partition, the process gets failed. In such situations, you sys...
December 16, 2008
Data is organized in the form of files. Your system recognizes files of different applications, each one having a diverse rating of importance. In an organization, not a single person but all the employees are equally responsible for preventing files. Hence each one of them should be educated enough...
December 18, 2008
The phrase ´back-end database´ is very common among the developers who use small database management systems, which could contain end-user application programming in the database as single item. The most common database application used as back-end database is Microsoft Access. The back ...
December 12, 2008
Slow performance and delays in responses is common complain among Outlook users. Apart from Add-Ins issues, poorly configured Outlook, hard disk problems and insufficient RAM, large size of PST is the main factor which makes Outlook slow. Outlook 2002 and its earlier version impart a restriction tha...
December 10, 2008
Due to many numbers of reasons, user may want to use his/her Outlook PST data in Outlook Express and for which import messages is the option. Using File->Import->Messages->Microsoft Outlook, user may succeed in its intentions, until no difficulty is there. But, in case of process failure, t...
December 06, 2008
When the worst scenario of data loss takes place in your computer system and all of your important and business critical data files disappear, do not worry at all. There are several data recovery software available in the market to help you out. You can recover your significant data very easily and ...
December 02, 2008
Dirty shutdowns, minor file system inconsistencies and more, these are the common problems with Linux operating system. So at each boot, the criterion of fsck is meant for preventing the data loss problems with Linux. But contrarily, serious data loss issues have been seen, when the user loses power...
December 04, 2008
Kernel panic in Linux operating systems is the condition where system detects an error, out its scope. When the unrecoverable state is detected by Linux, the kernel code can possibly call the panic function of sys/system.h and in turn may yield you error messages, similar to:"Linux Kernel panic: VFS...
November 29, 2008
When it comes to the performance of raw database, the biggest performance gaining mechanism could be the use of indexes. Database indexes improve access to your stored data, so you do not have to scan whole table for accessing your data. Indexing saves a lot of CPU, memory and I/O usage. Though, it ...
November 27, 2008
With Bug 53102 in your Linux system, you may find a number of problems got attached to your system:The system won´t unmountSystem freezes sometimesFrequent Partition corruptionDisk is remounted as read-onlyThese problems generally occur with Ext3 file system. Moreover, the users also report to...
November 24, 2008
Linux file systems such as Ext2, Ext3 and Reiser FS file systems do the same organizing stuff for the files and directories, which the other file systems are expected to do. But, if one day you find symptoms like cross linked files, lost clusters or the invalid files and directories, these give you ...