On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:21:12PM -0400, [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.

        less /var/log/dmesg

appears to be the original boot log. it is NOT the same thing you see
(days or weeks later) when doing "dmesg | less".

> 
> 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?


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---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------
                      The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, 
                    keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------



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