what to do when partitioning causes failure of FSCk

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data recovery

Hard disk in a Linux machine 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 OS. However, as the requirements of the user change with a passage of time, the users increase or decrease the size of these partitions accordingly. To do so, the users either opt for FDISK utility or any third party software. 

While the process of re-partitioning allows the user to fulfill all partitioning requirements, it might also result into complete unmountability of the hard disk, if not performed systematically. In most of these situations, the user encounters an error message that does not allow him/her to access the data saved on any of the hard drive partitions. To overcome such error messages, the user needs to opt for an effective third-party Linux partition Recovery application, if s/he has not maintained any backup.

Consider a practical scenario to illustrate the above case. You have three primary partitions and one extended partition in your Linux based hard dsik. You use a third-party utility to delete the extended partition and allocate all the space to one of your primary partition. However, after you have done so and you reboot your system, you encounter the below error message:

“Loading console font lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial (K
fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root
file system is currently mounted read only. To remount it
read write do:
bash# mount -n -o remount,rw /
Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this
maintenance mode. shutdown or reboot will not work.
Give root password fol login:”

The above error message appears at the booting time and makes all the hard disk partitions inaccessible.

Cause of the error:

The above error message occurs when file system corrupts due to improper partitioning by third-party partitioning utility.

How to resolve:

To get past the above file system corruption error message and access the data, follow the below guidelines:

Run the FSCK command to repair the file system.

Reinstall the OS and restore the data saved from an updated backup. However, if in case no backup is available, then you will need to use a commercial Linux Partition Recovery software. Such Linux data Recovery software use advance scanning algorith to scan the deleted files data from all the partitions.