Ext3 (Third Extended File System) is a journaling and advanced file system, used for the Linux operating system. If your system faces improper system shutdown or system crash, file system journaling empowers endues it to recover without losing data. Ext3 file system contains a number of significant data structures and Superblock is one of them. It stores critical data about file system, such as type of file system, size of file system, file system mount status, and information about all other hard drive data structures. Corruption to superblock lead to data loss and need Linux Data Recovery to be sorted out.
In order to avoid critical situations, in case of superblock corruption, Linux maintains duplicate copies of superblock. You can use the redundant copy for mounting the file system, after locating it. In some cases, you may encounter the below error message while trying to mount the Ext3 file system volume:
“JBD: no valid journal superblock found”
Furthermore, you encounters one more error message that indicates problems with your system wile loading the file system journal. Both these errors terminate the hard drive mount operation and make the disk inaccessible.
JBD layer (Journaling Block Device) is an API (Application Programing Interface), used by the journaling code of Ext3 file system. This is proposed to express implementation of the Ext3 file system journal.
The problem may be corrupted journal. After corruption, journal can not be loaded. If you try to replay the damaged journal, file system data structures, including Superblock, may get overwritten. It generally occurs as Ext3 file system does not support the checksumming during write process to journal and thus finally need Data Recovery Linux.
In such critical circumstances, you can try fixing the hard drive through fsck command-line utility. If the problem persists and file system is no longer mountable, Linux Recovery is required to handle the situation.
Recovery is potential through the most advanced and effective applications, known as Ext3 Recovery software. They carry out in-depth scan of the entire storage media to search, locate, and recover lost data in all logical data loss situations.
The tools have simple graphical user interface to provide easy to use. They do not alter original data from the hard drive as they have read-only and non-destructive conduct.
