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Monitor a Linux RAID5 Rebuild

Categories: HowTo

My new NAS is currently rebuilding its RAID5 array, and I figured it'd be good to watch the progress of the rebuild. To this end, I hacked together a quick and dirty script to display the contents of /proc/mdstat at one second intervals. Just place the below code in a file called mdinfo.sh (nano mdinfo.sh and paste), make it executable (chmod +x mdinfo.sh) and run it (./mdinfo.sh). To quit, just press Control-C.

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