How to recover/repair lost/damage partitions

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software

! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.


TestDisk can:
    * Fix partition table,

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How to recover deleted pictures and Video files

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is free

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Ubuntu Karmic : Changes between Grub 1.x and Grub2

Grub Legacy is not present in Karmic. People who upgrade from earlier versions may have the option of keeping Grub Legacy or upgrade to Grub2.

If you upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic you may get an option to keep Grub Legacy.

If you do a new install of Karmic you may install it (Grub2) on the partition instead of MBR and chainload it from existing Grub Legacy.

But I suggest everyone to just learn

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Which Linux Distribution to Choose?

Linux Distribution Chooser is an on line application where you have to answer series of questions, these sets also includes questions on your knowledge on Linux and type of OS you are look for and depending on your answers the application will gives you a list of recommendations on the Linux distributions that best suits your needs.




Do check this out, it's really useful.

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What is Btrfs?

Btrfs (B-tree FS or "Butter FS") is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Initially developed by Oracle, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone.

Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the

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How to enable quota on OpenSuse

Quota allows System Administrator to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users.

The idea behind quota is that users are forced to stay under their disk consumption limit, taking away their ability to consume unlimited disk space on a system. Quota is

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How to create an Encrypted Partition (local or removable disk)

Attention: following this tutorial will wipe all data from the partition or device you write it to. You cannot encrypt your file system after-the-fact using this method. Be sure you have backups or don’t care about the data being lost if you follow these steps!!!


Step 1:
The first step in the tutorial is installing the cryptsetup utility, which is part of the cryptsetup package. You can search

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