How To Install dmraid on Fedora 34

dmraid is Device-mapper RAID tool and library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid on Fedora 34.

What is dmraid

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install dmraid on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmraid.

Install dmraid on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dmraid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dmraid

Install dmraid on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dmraid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dmraid

How To Uninstall dmraid on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the dmraid package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dmraid

dmraid Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/e1cd3588026a4e35b182e4c0ed984e9de8dea5
/usr/lib/systemd/fedora-dmraid-activation
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dmraid-activation.service
/usr/sbin/dmraid
/usr/share/doc/dmraid
/usr/share/doc/dmraid/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/dmraid/README
/usr/share/licenses/dmraid
/usr/share/licenses/dmraid/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/dmraid/LICENSE_GPL
/usr/share/licenses/dmraid/LICENSE_LGPL
/usr/share/man/man8/dmraid.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.