On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Keith Roberts <ke...@karsites.net> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> >> From: Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [CentOS] data recovery >> >> Hi, >> >> Need help on data recovery. >> >> Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to >> something that does not make any sense. Its a 1.8TB in >> size and had only one single > partition. Now I can see 3 >> partitions sde1, sde2 and sde2 of sizes 130M, 140GB and >> 10GB. >> >> Is there any way to recover data from these newly created >> disk devices? > > Hi Paras. > > AFAIK disks don't get partitioned out of the blue.
Yes true. We are trying to find the out how it happened when nobody did anything to this server. > > They need some sort of intervention to make this happen. > > What have you done just before this happened? > > Did you try to do an installation of Linux, or something > else? No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very very restricted. > > Also, is it possible for a trojan program to do this to your > HDD? Are there any know trojan that can change the disk layout? > > Kind Regards, > > Keith Roberts Thanks Paras. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Websites: > http://www.karsites.net > http://www.php-debuggers.net > http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk > > All email addresses are challenge-response protected with > TMDA [http://tmda.net] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
