Many organizations use Linux as their server operating system store their important and business critical data on Linux systems. But sometimes this reliable operating system may also get crashed and you may face serious problems. You may have two types of experiences with Linux system crash:
- In first type of system crash, the automatic journal Linux recovery succeeds and the system boot continues as normal.
- In case of second type of crash, the journal Linux recovery fails and you are deserted to a prompt where you have to consider which tool to use. In this case when you use fsck you will get disastrous results.
When the fsck is run while booting the system, root file system is mounted as read only and other file systems aren’t mounted. The full journal data recovery Linux can easily be performed on the un-mounted file system, but not on the root file system.
The Reiser FSCK tool does not allow you to perform a complete repair on the root file system unless you boot your system with recovery disk. Ext2 and Ext3 allows the same.
It can not be said a wise to perform Linux recovery on the mounted file system. When you do so, the system would write the in-memory data back to the file system and everything will be messed up.
In such catastrophic circumstances, you need to use specially designed Linux recovery software. These software are known as Linux data recovery software and are made available by several data recovery companies.
Linux recovery software generally come prepared with interactive user interface and thus do not require any sound technical knowledge to achieve data recovery Linux. You need to simply select a powerful Linux data recovery software and start scanning process to achieve the required results.
