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 other benefits. But in some situations, you might encounter I/O errors while accessing logical hard drive volumes and they become inaccessible. This behavior of Linux system results into critical data loss situations and require
Linux Data Recovery to be sorted out.
While this is true that Linux operating system would work fine on the hard disk with only one large partition, but there are several benefits of dividing the hard drive into at least four volumes (home, root, swap and usr). The major benefits of partitioning the hard drive are as given below:...
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 availability. The file system offers in-place upgrade from popular Ext2 file system. However, in some situations, the Ext3 file system may come across various issues that can damage the file system and lead to data loss. In such critical situations, you need to go for Linux data recovery to extract lost data from Ext3 file system volume.
The Ext3 file system has added the following three major features to its predecessor Ext2 file system:
H-tree or hashed tree directory indexes for improved performance.
A file system journal to prevent data loss in case of system crash or improper system shutdown.
In-directory file types...
