Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-28 Thread loophole
i'm also waiting for anyone who knows if it is possible to repartition without rebooting to re-read the partition table. :) = `When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*.' - Linus

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-28 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 03:46 28/08/2002 -0700, you wrote: i'm also waiting for anyone who knows if it is possible to repartition without rebooting to re-read the partition table. :) It is possible - I do it daily. The reboot is an option that you may need to take on some (elderly) hardware or esoteric disk

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 If you're running procfs, you can cat /proc/scsi/scsi to see a list of scsi devices. 2. When

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Rick Forrister
[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,

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Rick Forrister wrote: [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

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Burger
Sure...fdisk /dev/sd0 (replace the 0 with whatever drive nunber was assigned to it at boot). and then p to print the partition information.. On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [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

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Rick Forrister wrote: [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

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Ray Curtis
c == ChrisHoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c I need some help. c 1. I have a server that has been up for 100+ days and I need to do some c hard drive work on. I know that the server has an available 33 gig scsi c drive on it, but I'm not sure how linux saw the drive.

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Samuel Flory
Look in the following: /var/log/DMESG /proc/partitions /proc/scsi/scsi On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:21, [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

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread fred smith
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.

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 18:19, fred smith wrote: 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