[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I need some help.
>
> 1. I have a server that has been up for 100+ days and I need to do some
> hard drive work on. I know that the server has an available 33 gig scsi
> drive on it, but I'm not sure how linux saw the drive. Unfortunately due
> to the amount of uptime, dmesg no longer shows the bootstrap sequence. Is
> there anyway to get linux to do something like a re-scan of the drives and
> report to me what it finds? Since this machine is in production, I can
> not bounce it without a lot of headache.
>
> 2. When the drive is detected and I partition it, is there a way to get
> linux to see the partitions w/o a reboot?
>
Chris, suggest you take a look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, the file
generated by kudzu. You'll find a listing in there that looks like:
class: HD
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: sda
etc.
This, for example, would tell you that you have a scsi hard drive
(there's a description, too) on /dev/sda.
You can then partition and format it as "fdisk /dev/sda" without messing
up any other hard drives. Just be sure it's the correct hard drive, and
not the one you're using~ 8^)
Partitions can be viewed with 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'. You can create mount
points, and mount them as needed, and linux will see/use them sans
problems.
HIH
rickf
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