Forcing a disk rescan after %pre

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

	Dag, I think that I was able to detect MD devices created after %pre
(on VT2), so would be an option to create an MD device over your newly
created sda ?

	Regards
	Pablo


El jue, 02-10-2008 a las 13:13 +0200, Dag Wieers escribió:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Paul Malinowski wrote:
> 
> > Try to use partprobe to re-read available disks/partitions. I'm not 
> > sure is it available when %pre script runs, but anaconda does that 
> > somehow during the partitioning section so I guess it's possible. In the 
> > worst case scenario I would add reboot at the end of creation of raid 
> > config in the %pre script - so that it would reboot if change in config 
> > occured. I know that its rather a nasty hack, not a proper solution, but 
> > please keep in mind that anaconda has some limits.
> 
> The reboot is what I am planning to do, but I prefer to look first at a 
> better option instead of settling for this because I don't know better :-)
> 
> I fear that anaconda's data-structure is not updated and the scan for 
> disks has already happened before the %pre. Because after my RAID scripts 
> has run, I do have /dev/sda available to the system, but anaconda behaves 
> as if there were no disks found.
> 
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