From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Storage device enumeration script Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:44:54 +0100 Message-ID: <4DDF7296.6050706@anonymous.org.uk> References: <4DDDC301.7090608@turmel.org> <1306403130.9437.109.camel@torbjorn> <4DDE249C.7080004@anonymous.org.uk> <4DDF6B99.20602@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DDF6B99.20602@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 27/05/2011 10:15, John Robinson wrote: [...] > I'm not entirely sure where dev.ID_ etc are supposed to be coming > from, but if it's that `blkid -p -o udev /dev/block/8:0` then I'm > afraid CentOS 5's blkid doesn't understand the -p or -o udev options, > it doesn't produce any output for whole drives with partition tables, > and there isn't a /dev/block directory. It's blkid 1.0.0 from > e2fsprogs 1.39-23.el5_5.1. > > If that knocks CentOS 5 support on the head then so be it... Hmm, udevinfo might be of some use. Still doesn't say it's found a DOS partition table, but it does get you e.g. ID_FS_TYPE=linux_raid_member and perhaps `file -s` will tell you there's DOS partition table (sort of). Cheers, John.