How To Install fai-setup-storage on Debian 10

Learn how to install fai-setup-storage on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fai-setup-storage is automatically prepare storage devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-setup-storage on Debian 10.

What is fai-setup-storage

fai-setup-storage is:

Using FAI disk_config files, setup-storage computes effective partition and volume sizes and executes the necessary commands to configure storage devices. It manages disk drives as well as RAID and LVM volumes. It handles all file systems supported by parted(8) as well as ntfs but is flexible enough to be extended to further types as well. Once the storage devices are prepared, an appropriate fstab(5) file is generated.

This package provides the setup-storage utility as separate package so it can be used independent from FAI as well.

There are three methods to install fai-setup-storage on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fai-setup-storage Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fai-setup-storage using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fai-setup-storage

Install fai-setup-storage Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fai-setup-storage using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fai-setup-storage

Install fai-setup-storage Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fai-setup-storage using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fai-setup-storage

How To Uninstall fai-setup-storage on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fai-setup-storage package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fai-setup-storage

Uninstall fai-setup-storage And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fai-setup-storage and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fai-setup-storage

Remove fai-setup-storage Configurations and Data

To remove fai-setup-storage configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fai-setup-storage

Remove fai-setup-storage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fai-setup-storage configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fai-setup-storage

Dependencies

fai-setup-storage have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-setup-storage package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.