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Drive mappings in Linux are somewhat arbitrary. My specific problem is that I have a SCSI box, 2 controllers 5 slots each with roughly 9 drives currently plugged in. Looking at LVM, one drive, /dev/sdd, has not been allocated. The issue is that I want to figure out what physical drive it is. The second problem is that this is a production drive and I don't want to have to shut it down. Unfortunately, it is not hot-swap in that if I place a drive into an empty slot, the system will not recognize it. I do know which physical drive is the boot drive, so I could conceivably take down NFS and unmount the LVM volumes. In any case, what I want to do is just put in a 300GB drive that my WD NAS (when I get it working) is replacing. At that point I will have to reboot. (SATA is so much nicer in this respect in that I can pop drives in and out. (I know it is dangerous, but this is just hypthetical). --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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