[CentOS] Re: software raid

[Les Mikesell]

Jeff Lasman wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 05:58 am, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but there is still the issue of whether the drive will be
>> recognized at all when hotplugged.  Once the drive is assigned a
>> device name by the kernel you will be able to fdisk it.  You don't
>> need to mount  it because the md device will be mounted, not the disk
>> partitions.
> 
> Thanks, Les.
> 
> I see where I'm going to have to try this some day soon.  All our 
> systems with hotswap bays are in service; I'll try the experiment on 
> the next one.

Usually the 'dmesg' command will show newly detected devices.  I'm just 
not sure how it works with SATA.

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   Les Mikesell
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