From: Stephen Hughes (stephenh_at_Medscheme.co.za)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 07:59:46 CEST
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 07:59:46 +0200 Message-ID: <CA1361E9F77A4243A99E04D98F5CC72401A7AE57@ZARDPEXCH001.medscheme.com> From: "Stephen Hughes" <stephenh@Medscheme.co.za> Subject: RE: [suse-sles-e] Adding Disk on the fly
Thanks Denis,
I'll see about trying this, but one thing that I have noticed though is
when I do and "fdisk -l" to list my disk attached to the system, I can't
see the newly assigned disk in order to format them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Brown [mailto:dsbrown@cyllene.uwa.edu.au]
Sent: 04 May 2006 07:43 AM
To: suse-sles-e@suse.com
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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