Grant Coady wrote:

> ...
> not something I would expect to work, need BIOS support, AFAIK
> linux still needs reboot to re-read drive geometry, unsure.

Using hot-swappable SCSI drives, I've used "sfdisk -R /dev/$disk" to get
the kernel to read the partition table of a newly inserted disk. That
has worked flawlessly for me.

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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