How To Install dmraid on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid on CentOS 7. dmraid is dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid on CentOS 7.

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. 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmraid.

Install dmraid on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install dmraid

Install dmraid on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install dmraid

How To Uninstall dmraid on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove dmraid

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.