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Rescan SCSI bus on linux
posted on September 18th 2019, at 12:02
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lunarg
When adding a new disk to a live system (e.g. a linux VM), the new disk may not always show up. Additionally, when resizing a disk through the hypervisor, the VM may not always immediately have the new size available for use. Luckily, you can trigger a rescan of the SCSI bus through the sysfs system.
For this to work, you'll need to have shell and root access to the server/VM.
Modern linux kernels automatically detect the addition of a disk, but in case it doesn't, you can trigger a rescan of a specific (virtual) SCSI controller:
echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan
Replace hostX with the number of the SCSI controller, where host0 is the first, host1 is the second, et
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