From: Timo Scheller (timo.scheller_at_gwdg.de)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 08:07:25 CEST
Message-ID: <44599A1D.907@gwdg.de> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:07:25 +0200 From: Timo Scheller <timo.scheller@gwdg.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Adding Disk on the fly
Hi Stephen,
maybe that`s what you need or looking for:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
Kind regards,
Timo
Stephen Hughes schrieb:
> 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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