Sometimes when you boot your Linux based computer, you may find that your system stucks in the boot window or it aborts the boot process. In these cases, you need to restart and the system but the same situation occurs again and again.

This problem generally occurs if fstab directory contains wrong or corrupted or missing information form system related mount points. In these situations the boot process aborts when the operating system tries to write log information to the relevant directory.


The fstab or File system table file is generally found in Linux or other UNIX like operating system as the part of the system configuration. It generally lists all the available system disks and disk volumes, and indicates how they are to be initialized or otherwise integrated into the overall file system of your Linux computer. This file is mostly used by mount command.

It is very important to solve this problem very quickly for smooth running of your Linux system. You can work around this problem by reinstalling the operating system as it is the system related problem.

Operating system reinstallation is a very easy process that a general computer user can perform without any problem. But the results of the same are very drastic. The data stored on the primary volume of your Linux hard drive will be lost. The situation becomes more critical in case where you have stored all your important data on the primary volume or you even haven’t partitioned the hard drive.

In these situations, your precious data stored on your hard drive will be lost and you need to recover them. You can recover data using Linux data recovery solutions available in the form of Linux data recovery software. The Linux data recovery software are easy to use and fast performing data recovery tools that can help you in retrieving all of your lost data from Linux hard drive.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is an extremely powerful and easy to perform data recovery option. This data recovery software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the lost Linux data and recover them. This Linux recovery software can recover all kind of files stored on your Linux hard drive including documents, pictures, movies, and music files.

Stellar Phoenix Linux data recovery software is compatible with all flavours of Linux including Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu. This data recovery software also works as partition recovery software and can recover lost, missing or corrupted Linux partitions based on Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS file system.