From: Matt Gillard (Matt.Gillard_at_colesmyer.com.au)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 08:05:43 CEST
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:05:43 +1000 Message-ID: <945EC6EF5C9B7848B118CF7339F5E196192C6C@WPEXCH04.colesmyer.ad.cmltd.net.au> From: "Matt Gillard" <Matt.Gillard@colesmyer.com.au> Subject: RE: [suse-sles-e] Adding Disk on the fly
/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh is what you are after.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hughes [mailto:stephenh@Medscheme.co.za]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2006 4:00 PM
> To: Denis Brown; suse-sles-e@suse.com
> 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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