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Programatically determine if device is in RAID array

Hey all,

I'm writing a bash script that needs to know whether or not a device node is part of a RAID array. I'm just curious if anyone knows of a good way to determine if a device node is in a RAID array. I know that you can run mdadm -Q or mdadm --examine on the device node and that will tell you. But I don't want to rely on screen scrapping and would rather have something that would return a boolean. Any ideas?

-Anon

Well,

To start with, is this for just one of your boxes, or is this going to be for software that is going out to end-users with 'gawd-knows-what' running on their system?

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Originally Posted by anoneironaut

I know that you can run mdadm -Q or mdadm --examine on the device node and that will tell you.

Well, if you were running from a hardware RAID, it might not tell you. To tell what is going on with a 3Ware card, you need to use their tw_cli or 3dm2 interfaces.

I would think that if you are definitely looking for a local software RAID that was set up with mdadm, you may want to see what is created under /sys for the drive/filesystem after setting up a RAID with mdadm and try to key on that.

HTH.

This only needs to run on RHEL4. Its always going to be software RAID. I'll take a look through those.