How To Install mdadm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdadm
on CentOS 7.
What is mdadm
The mdadm program is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID) devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools package. However, mdadm is a single program, and it can perform almost all functions without a configuration file, though a configuration file can be used to help with some common tasks.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mdadm
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mdadm.
Install mdadm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mdadm
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mdadm 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.
After updating yum database, We can install mdadm
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mdadm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mdadm
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdadm
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.