Disc upgrade - how to reread partition table?

[Kuba Ober]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Krishnaprasad_K at dell.com wrote:
> What abt rescanning the SCSI controller? In Redhat servers ,we can
> perform SCSI controller rescan using
>
> echo "scsi scsi-scan-devices" > /proc/scsi/scsi

That scans for new devices. It will incidentally re-read a partition table, 
but the device has to be (soft) removed from the scsi subsystem. Just as if 
you removed a USB drive and reconnected it.

partprobe is the way to go!

Cheers, Kuba