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Command to re-read new VM disk CentOS/RHEL

System: CentOS/RHEL 6 and CentOS/RHEl 7

Case:
Added new VM disk in CentOS not showing the new VM disk when run fdisk -l.

Resolution:
Login as root, run this command to re-read the new VM disk without reboot the server.

ls /sys/class/scsi_host/ | while read host ; do echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/$host/scan ; done

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