My lilo configuration scripts need to be able to infer the correct location for the MBR. I am currently using the following algorithm: take root fs device from /etc/fstab and do the following: s/[0-9]*// s/part$/disc/
The latter is for devfs. Now for the benefit of RAID systems I need to do: if($device =~ /\/dev\/md/) { my $mdname = $device; $mdname =~ s/\/dev\///; $mdname =~ s/\///; my $md = `grep $mdname /proc/mdstat`; my @devices = split(" ", $md); @devices = sort(@devices[4..$#devices]); $root = "/dev/" . $devices[0]; $root =~ s/\[.*$//; } Before the part of: s/[0-9]*// s/part$/disc/ The debconf code that Gergely Risko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote is what I'm building on. Gergely's code has essentially s/[0-9]*// inlined which is ok for a non-RAID non-devfs system. But I want to work with all combinations of RAID and non-RAID, devfs and non-devfs and also expand to LVM in the near future. So I can't do that. I currently plan to put a program to do this under /usr/sbin. Now I have the following questions: 1) Does anyone have any similar code for doing this that I can merge my code with? 2) Does anyone else need the same code? If so please tell me what you need and I'll make my code as generic as I can. 3) Can anyone see any obvious bugs in the above? -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page