We've shown you simple ways to recover accidentally deleted files, even a simple method that can be done from an Ubuntu Live CD, but for hard disks that have been heavily corrupted, those methods ...

SystemRescueCd is another live Linux rescue CD that offers numerous tools to handle numerous tasks, including partition manipulation, file recovery, hard disk testing, ftp, and disk formatting.

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$ sudo file -sL /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 file system data, UUID=417d867b-270d-4ceb-a3e1-58b9a5f5c4c4 (needs journal recovery) (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files) File ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions?

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