Disk Utilties that Give the Most Info.
Hi,
Is there a utility that can identify a hard disk configuration. Let's say I have broken RAID array, it's software RAID and I don't know anything about the desktop PC beforehand. Is there something I can run that can look at the "signature" of the disks or a disk and say "there are two disks for RAID 0 and it's corrupted"? Or how would I get quickly understand I was dealing with two RAID disk or another config? Would fdisk -l give a hint. I'm new to this and just searching for utilities to try. thanks. |
To find out what RAID the kernel knows about:
Code:
cat /proc/mdstat Code:
mdadm --examine /dev/sda |
Hi:
There is a Disk Inspection and Monitoring tool that you can use for hard disks called S.M.A.R.T. https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ The command fdisk -l will show you all of the partitions on a machine. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Test Disk is another tool you can use but it's for Recovery:- http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk More Tools here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/avoid-l...h-these-tools/ HTH |
I like to use "lsblk -f" as a first attempt. Shows LVM, RAID, whatever - for more RAID detail, as per post #2.
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