Using mdadm to examine the superblock

To view the event count, we will use the mdadm command with the --examine flag to examine the disk devices:

[nfs]# mdadm --examine /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 1.0
    Feature Map : 0x1
     Array UUID : 7adf0323:b0962394:387e6cd0:b2914469
           Name : localhost:boot
  Creation Time : Wed Apr 15 09:39:22 2015
     Raid Level : raid1
   Raid Devices : 2

 Avail Dev Size : 1023968 (500.07 MiB 524.27 MB)
     Array Size : 511936 (500.02 MiB 524.22 MB)
  Used Dev Size : 1023872 (500.02 MiB 524.22 MB)
   Super Offset : 1023984 sectors
   Unused Space : before=0 sectors, after=96 sectors
          State : clean
    Device UUID : 92d97c32:1f53f59a:14a7deea:34ec8c7c

Internal Bitmap : -16 sectors from superblock
    Update Time : Mon May 11 04:08:10 2015
  Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset -8 sectors
       Checksum : bd8c1d5b - correct
         Events : 60


   Device Role : Active device 0
   Array State...