Information about the package, dmraid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dmraid package is designed for, dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library).
Package Name:
dmraid
Summary:
dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library)
Description:
DMRAID supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation, creation, removal, rebuild and display of properties for ATARAID/DDF1 metadata on Linux >= 2.4 using device-mapper.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.0.rc16
Release:
11.el6
Size:
140 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the dmraid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dmraid
This command will install dmraid on the server.
yum remove dmraid
This command will un-install dmraid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dmraid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dmraid
This command will un-install dmraid on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dmraid when using the -y flag.
yum update dmraid
This command will update dmraid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dmraid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dmraid
This command will update dmraid to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dmraid when using the -y flag.
yum info dmraid
This command will show you core information about the dmraid package.
yum deplist dmraid
This command will show you the dependencies for dmraid. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update dmraid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dmraid. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.