-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/08 09:18, UDP 514 wrote: > 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?
If no oone else answers here, there are lists and sites dedicated to HA Linux systems. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.", Mr. Spock -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIQBKYS9HxQb37XmcRAp1tAJ0bVSu7VnfrsR2a8WRWJy+ktORogwCg284C uWO+h1naW72o1Zntq2Aoc2E= =Ht9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]