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? -- ---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) ----------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list