Linux RAID management utilities?

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On 9/25/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Huh?  What tool?  mdadm *is* the tool.
>
>   I think what Bills is asking for is a tool that sucks less.  :-)

Oh, well *that's* different ;)

> Whenever I find myself typing long sequences of numbers or strings
> back into a computer, I think to myself, "Hmmm, I was taught that
> computers help us by performing repetitive tasks and efficiently
> processing information.  I seem to have missed that train."

In this case, what he wants is awk ;)

 mdadm /dev/md0 \
       --assemble \
       --uuid="`mdadm -E /dev/hda1|awk -F' : ' '/UUID/ {print $2}'`" \
       /dev/hd[ae]1

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Seeya,
Paul