How can you get fdisk to see new fiber channel attached disk LUNs without rebooting?

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New SCSI devices can be added to a system dynamically through the SCSI hotplug mechanism. To add a SCSI device to the SCSI bus without rebooting the system issue the following command:

echo "scsi add-single-device A B C D">/proc/scsi/scsi

Where:

  • A is the host bus adapter (HBA) number

  • B is the...

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