Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-29 Thread Paras pradhan
Lamar, Thanks for the info. Paras. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, September 26, 2011 11:18:06 AM Paras pradhan wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> > May I ask what sort of SAN? >> Its a Hitachi OpenV fibre channel SAN (4Gbps HBA).

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, September 26, 2011 11:18:06 AM Paras pradhan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > May I ask what sort of SAN? > Its a Hitachi OpenV fibre channel SAN (4Gbps HBA). My storage admin > checked if this LUN can be accessible by others and he found no other > host

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, September 26, 2011 06:41:16 PM Ross Walker wrote: > Might it be possible you ran KVM on the host and accidentally set the guest > disk to /dev/sda? /dev/sde is the OP's LUN device. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Hi Lamar, > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Friday, September 23, 2011 04:29:39 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >>> This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage >>> administrator if this has been re mapped or

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread m . roth
Paras pradhan wrote: > Here are some new additional info : > > My colleague mounted this LUN to a different host and we found the > same partitions over there too which is normal. > > I dd a 1st device to a file and opened the image file with bvi and > found some hosts name, VG name etc etc. in th

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi Lamar, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 04:29:39 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >> This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage >> administrator if this has been re mapped or any similar events and he >> verified that nothing has happen

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread John Doe
From: Paras pradhan > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: >> On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Paras pradhan wrote: >  Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >      Flags >    1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB               Microsoft

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 04:29:39 PM Paras pradhan wrote: > This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage > administrator if this has been re mapped or any similar events and he > verified that nothing has happened...(I trust him) May I ask what sort of SAN? Fibre Channel or iS

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-24 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Michel Donais wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Michel Donais > Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery > > Two weeks ago I've been in similar situation on an 80 gig sata drive. > > Found it with 8 partition; boot was there but nothing of the

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Michel Donais
Two weeks ago I've been in similar situation on an 80 gig sata drive. Found it with 8 partition; boot was there but nothing of the operating system to load Linux 5.6 My recovery solution was to put the disk on a window system as a secondary drive. Just connected to read data For reading I found

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
opps thats a typo.. the 3rd partition is yes 1.1TB and not 10GB. sorry. Paras. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/23/11 1:32 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: >> You mean the newer windows will create the partition schema as we are >> seeing it now? And you think its the automa

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/23/11 1:32 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > You mean the newer windows will create the partition schema as we are > seeing it now? And you think its the automatic partitioning by windows > if somebody has the access to this? i just noticed that 3rd partition is 1.1TB. you had said... > Suddenly

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Craig White
On Sep 23, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Paras pradhan wrote: > Here is o/p John > > Number Start End Size File system Name > Flags >1

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Paras pradhan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: >> On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Paras pradhan wrote: >  Here is o/p John > >  Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >      Flags >    1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Paras pradhan wrote: >>> >  Here is o/p John >>> > >>> >  Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >>> >      Flags >>> >    1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB               Microsoft reserve

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage administrator if this has been re mapped or any similar events and he verified that nothing has happened...(I trust him) Here is one thing I have found. I dd the 1st 134MB partition to an image. and opened it with the hex editor. After

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Paras pradhan wrote: >> > Here is o/p John >> > >> > Number Start End Size File system Name >> > Flags >> >1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved >> > partition msftres >> >2 135MB 134GB 134GB

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:44:58 PM Paras pradhan wrote: > Thanks for your detailed suggestion. Yes thats a GPT .. the o/p is from > parted. Is this a removable or some sort, like USB, firewire, eSATA, hot-plug SCSI, Fibre-channel, or SAS? Could it have been taken out to another machine a

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:59:17 PM Keith Roberts wrote: > If it's a production box in service, and this has > happened to it, How can it still be running? It's not the boot or root drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us >> Paras pradhan wrote: >>> Here is o/p John >>> >>> Number Start End Size File system Name >>>Flags >>> 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved >>> partition msftres

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery > > Paras pradhan wrote: >> Here is o/p John >> >> Number Start End Size File system Name >>

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:25:10 PM Paras pradhan wrote: >> Here is o/p John >> >> Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name >>    Flags >>  1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB               Microsoft reserved >> partition  msftres >>  2  

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:25:10 PM Paras pradhan wrote: > Here is o/p John > > Number Start End Size File system Name >Flags > 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved > partition msftres > 2 135MB 134GB 134GB ntfs Basic data partition

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 06:48:07 PM Paras pradhan wrote: > Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that > doesnot 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.

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Paras pradhan wrote: > Here is o/p John > > Number Start End Size File system Name >Flags > 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved > partition msftres > 2 135MB 134GB 134GB ntfs Basic data partition > 3 134GB 1100GB 965GB

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > *snip* > >> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very >> very restricted. > > Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open? > What CLI tools to format a HDD do you have on the

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
Here is o/p John Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres 2 135MB 134GB 134GB ntfs Basic data partition 3 134GB 1100GB 965GB Basic data partition Thanks Par

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us >> Keith Roberts wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: >>> *snip* >>> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very very restricted. >>> >>> Have you checked all your lo

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery > > Keith Roberts wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: >> *snip* >> >>> No. This is a productio

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > *snip* > >> No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very >> very restricted. > > Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open? > What CLI tools to format a HDD do you have on the server? And then there's the othe

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: *snip* > No. This is a production server and nobody logs in. Very > very restricted. Have you checked all your logs? What ports are open? What CLI tools to format a HDD do you have on the server? > >> >> Also, is it possible for a trojan program to do t

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/22/11 3:48 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Hi, > > Need help on data recovery. > > Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that > doesnot 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

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > >> To: CentOS mailing list >> From: Paras pradhan >> Subject: [CentOS] data recovery >> >> Hi, >> >> Need help on data recovery. >> >

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Paras pradhan > 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 an

[CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-23 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, Need help on data recovery. Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that doesnot 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

Re: [CentOS] Data recovery with superblocks?

2007-08-20 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Friday 17 August 2007 22:12:57 Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Now, using fdisk, I was reminded of being given superblocks. Although I > haven't used data recovery techniques using superblocks, is there a way to > retrieve the superblock numbers the OS has assigned to a partition? > sudo dumpe2fs /dev

[CentOS] Data recovery with superblocks?

2007-08-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
It recently occurred to me, as I was partitioning a RAID with fdisk, that when I built the system, I was presented with a graphical utility that "magically" created the partitions. Now, using fdisk, I was reminded of being given superblocks. Although I haven't used data recovery techniques u