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 that I can verify that this is the same device and was able to read the hostname, VGname etc etc. And AFAIK it is impossible to reshape or change the disk's geomerty to its original shape of anything without use intervention. This is really a mystery. Thanks Paras. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > 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 at any time? > > What kind of interfaces have sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd attached, and what kind of interface is attached to sde? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >