How To Install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8. bindfs is Fuse filesystem to mirror a directory

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is bindfs

Bindfs allows you to mirror a directory and also change the the permissions in the mirror directory.

We can use yum or dnf to install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bindfs.

Install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bindfs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bindfs

Install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bindfs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bindfs

How To Uninstall bindfs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the bindfs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bindfs

bindfs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/bindfs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/fe5391d914a96ccd43ac0da485a59ae9451955
/usr/share/doc/bindfs
/usr/share/doc/bindfs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/bindfs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bindfs
/usr/share/licenses/bindfs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bindfs.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bindfs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.