Proper way to add a new disk in Ubuntu

[John DeCarlo]

Thank you to all who responded.  Sorry for any rudeness in my messages
- I usually try and edit that out before sending <g>.


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:21:12 +0000, Thomas Beckett
<thomas.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >I couldn't think of anything else to try, so I rebooted (boo, hiss).
> > > >
> > > >Of course this fixed everything and there was a /dev/hdb1 again.
> > > >
> > > >Any recommendations on what I *should* have done?  Should I have
> > > >restarted hal or something?

> You just needed to restart udev, not sure of the command to do it
> though. Looking on google, and a post in a debian survival guide, i
> think you can just do:
> 
> sudo restart udev
> 
> This will then set udev about rebuilding the /dev tree. Of course -
> restarting the computer does this so the only difference is a minute
> to reboot.

Aha!  Thank you for the answer.  Maybe I will write this up for the wiki.

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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own