On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:32 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On 8/15/07, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz> wrote: > > Hello > > > > our external scsi drive is detached, so it is not showing up in fdisk -l > > however it shows up mounted in /etc/mtab > > > > is there any command that I can run to detect and re attach the hard > > drive again ? > > I don't want to reboot the computer. > > > > Thanks > > > > Check out this page: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ > Look under "Rescan SCSI bus" Should be able to use "umount -f <device>" to remove from mtab first. Phil