Thanks Brian, I was thinking about some thing like kudzu which will detect new devices. any other solution ? 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" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >