Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:24:16 -0500 (EST) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how can I find out which md device I just used ? (mdconfig) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0601050122090.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> In-Reply-To: <200601051424.38041.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On my system (5.4) mdconfig reports the created device to stdout: > So: > memdevice=`mdconfig -a -t malloc -s10M` > sets the device name in $memdevice. Thank you very much - I have just verified that this works the same way on FreeBSD 6.0. I appreciate your help. I am curious, I am doing two things at one here - setting the variable _and_ configging the md device. What is the best way, in a shell script, to also test to make sure that the device configured properly ? If the device does not configure properly, all I see is that I get a empty variable ... would it be appropriate to `text -z` that variable to see if it is zero ? Or is there a better way to approach that ? Basically I do not want to act unless I am sure that the mdconfig actually happened, and there really is a variable defined...
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