How to scan newly added disks to system?

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / amit shiknis

'devfsadm' command can be used to scan new disks attached
to your system.

Thanks,
Amit Shiknis

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / das

You can use # touch /reconfigure

or
ok boot -r

or

#devfsadm

Scan the new device on your system and creates the links
in /dev, /devices and /etc/path_to_inst

Hope it helps ...

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / p.r.l.prasanna

1 after booting the system that means you are at the root prompt
enter below command

#devfsadm

2 you are in ok prompt then enter below command

#b -r (or) boot -r

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / arun

devfsadm -Cv
(for scanning the new device without restating the system).

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / reddy

offline
touch /reconfigure
init 6

online
devfsadm -Cv

hp unix
ioscan -funC disk

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / amit

#devfsadm
is used if you do not want to reboot the system. and want
to detect new disk as well...

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / fda

cfgadm -al should scan for new devices
devfsadm (-c disk) creates the devices

hpux if you pass the u to the ioscan, i believe this only queries what is in the kernel and wont give you new devices... also on hpux you may need to run insf -ec disk

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / lochan

IOSCAN in HPUX
DF, Mount in solaris ot all other unix
prtvtoc in solaris

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How to scan newly added disks to system?..

Answer / kkk

to scan the disks from the array mean u can use Format
.after that u can use devfsadm command then it will create
the device drivers for that disk and detects the disk from
the array .

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