Am 2008-05-30 15:18:23, schrieb UDP 514:
> I have a server with hot swap disks.
> I'd like to be able to swap out a non-system disk , eg /dev/sdd and put in
> a new
> disk, partition it in fdisk, then mount those partitions. This all works
> fine, I can partition it,
> but the linux kernel hangs on to the old disk partitions in memory, so I
> can't mke2fs or
> mount the newly created partitions, without doing a reboot.
>
> Is there a way to force the kernel re-read the partition tables on a
> non-system disk?
> How do people maintain high uptime, if you need to reboot every time just to
> see an extra
> disk in a hot swap system?
You have to rescan the SCSI disk.
apt-get install scsiadd
You must remove the disk and then readd it.
Also you can use "scsitools"
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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