Re: Rereading disk geometry without reboot

From: Andy
Date: Thu Dec 09 2004 - 10:47:22 EST


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:37:07AM -0800, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
>
> You can re-scan a scsi device via sysfs. You can, for example,
>
> echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/rescan
>
> to rescan that device.
>
Yes, and it reports the new size in dmesg, but when I try to grow the xfs
it doesn't grow. It seems like some part of the kernel is not being told
about the new size of the drive. Any ideas?

Andy
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