From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 28 12:06:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA01306 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:06:21 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA01294 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:06:17 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id NAA07357 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:28:32 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199502281228.NAA07357@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Live insertion/removal of HD ? To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:28:32 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 756 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think this issue has been delat with, at leas partially, with laptops. I have bought a removable frame for IDE HDs. Assuming my HD (would be wd1) is not in use, i.e. no mounted partitions, no swapping to the disk, etc., is it possible to replace it while FreeBSD is running ? I.e. how much information on the disk is kept in the kernel, and is there a way to have the disk reprobed while running ? Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 ====================================================================