From: Denis Brown (dsbrown_at_cyllene.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 07:42:48 CEST
Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.2.20060504133046.020f2670@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:42:48 +0800 From: Denis Brown <dsbrown@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Adding Disk on the fly
At 01:09 PM 4/05/2006, Stephen Hughes wrote:
>Hi Group,
>In my environment here I have directly attached and SAN attached disk to
>many servers. From time to time when the need arises I need to add more
>disk to a server and find the only way to get my server to see the newly
>assigned disk is to reboot.
>
>Is there a command/s that I can run that will pick up the newly assigned
>disk with out having to reboot each time?
Hello Stephen.
One thought <insert usual disclaimers here> is to add the new disk
specification to /etc/fstab, create a suitable mount point, then use the
"mount" command.
I see this as directly analogous to having (say) a floppy drive listed in
fstab, and having a mount point assigned for it, then actually "attaching
it" on demand using the mount command.
It is probably a Good Idea (tm) to try this on a non-production machine
first <big smile>
Reading between the lines of your post though, perhaps you have tried this
already. I must admit that normally disk specs in fstab and mount points
are known quantities when a machine boots, so maybe the idea above is invalid?
HTH,
Denis
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