[CentOS] data recovery

Fri Sep 23 17:14:00 UTC 2011
Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Paras pradhan wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>> From: Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at 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.

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