[SOLVED] View status of a RAID

[confinedspace]

Hi,

I'm trying to check the status of a RAID array on a Debian server. The RAID has already been set up (not by me) and is working. The file system looks like this:

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
...
/dev/sdb1 1.4T 779G 542G 59% /mystorage

I've installed mdadm and tried to check the status, but got:

# mdadm --detail /dev/sdb1
mdadm: /dev/sdb1 does not appear to be an md device

So I tried this:

# mdadm --detail /mystorage
mdadm: /mystorage does not appear to be an md device

Finally I tried:

# more /proc/mdstat
Personalities :
unused devices: <none>

Anyone know how I can check the status of the RAID?

Regards.

[HROAdmin26]

Uh...If you have /dev/sdb1 mounted, you don't have a software RAID (md) device.

If you correctly created an md device, it will be /dev/md0, md1, etc.

If 1.4TB is a RAID set, it's being done by a HW controller or by the HDD device driver.

[confinedspace]

Thanks for the quick reply HROAdmin26. You are indeed correct, it is a hardware RAID!