Interrupted Process Of Gparted Cause Superblock Corruption And Data Loss In Linux

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Interrupted Process Of Gparted Cause Superblock Corruption And Data Loss In Linux

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In Linux operating system, GPT (GParted) is a useful tool that facilitates you to create, resize, move, delete, copy and check the hard drive partitions/volumes. It also copy file system on newly created partitions. It is helpful to create space to install new operating system, copying data stored on hard drive, mirroring one volume with another and recognizing disk usage. In some cases, using this tool may become problematic. It might damaged Linux superblock and lead to critical situations of system inaccessibility and possibly data loss. At this point, you are required to opt for Linux Data Recovery to get your precious and business-critical data back.

Sometimes, when the disk resizing, copying or any other GParted process is running, few read/write errors might terminate the phenomenon. Subsequent to this serious incident, your hard drive volumes could not mount and you come across a number of error message. In such circumstances, when you run the fsck utility after rebooting the system to check integrity and consistency of file system and hard drive, conditions could remain same. Situation becomes critical on every attempt to fix this issue. Linux operating system superblock may get damaged and give you that indication through following error message:

“superblock corrupted, run with -b 32768”

Superblock is a metadata structure of Linux operating system that keeps record of all file system characteristics such as size, block size, empty and filled blocks, respective counts, location and size of Inode tables, size of block groups, disk block map and the disk usage information. When it gets damaged, you can not access data from your hard drive and Data Recovery Linux is required.

Linux file system keeps redundant copies of the superblock. You can correct the problem by using any of them. You can search and use an alternative superblock with the help of 'mkfs -n' command.

If the above method can not help you to sort out the issue, Linux Recovery is the way to go for successful retrieval of your valuable data. Recovery is potential through advanced third-party applications, known as Linux Recovery Software.

The tools powerful and efficient scanning mechanisms to methodically scan whole hard drive and extract all of the lost, missing or inaccessible data from it. With read-only conduct and rich graphical user interface, the software are pretty safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is an advanced and robust application for assured recovery in all data loss situations. The software recovers data from Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 file system partitions. It works well with most major distributions of Linux including Debian, SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora and Mandriva.

Article Tags: Linux Recovery, Linux Data Recovery

About Author:
Manika Batta a student of Mass Communication doing research on Linux data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.data-recovery-linux.com/

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