Data structures or files may become damaged or corrupt.
The "corrupt" tag is appropriate for questions related to damaged data structures or files:
- detecting corruption: often related to common error messages or error states
- preventing corruption: techniques for analyzing causes and avoiding them
- recovering from corruption: tools and techniques for extracting partial data from damaged data structures, or restoring consistency to inconsistent data
Questions will always be in the context of a particular data structure, such as:
- file format (zip, gzip, rar, ...)
- file system (extfs, ntfs, ...)
- data structure (tree, heap, memory, ...)