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It's very handy if you added a disk in VMware, don't want to reboot and have no flashy thingy disk-tools.
It's very handy if you added a disk in VMware, don't want to reboot and have no flashy thingy disk-tools.
If you added space to your first disk you need to rescan your disk with:
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echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan
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Revision as of 16:50, 14 March 2013

To rescan your scsi disks (to look if a disk has been added) you can reread your scsi device by giving the following command:

echo "- - -" >/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan

It's very handy if you added a disk in VMware, don't want to reboot and have no flashy thingy disk-tools.

If you added space to your first disk you need to rescan your disk with:

echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan