How To Install ioping on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ioping on Rocky Linux 8. ioping is Simple disk I/O latency monitoring tool

Introduction

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

What is ioping

ioping lets you monitor I/O latency in real time. It shows disk latency in the same way as ping shows network latency.

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

Install ioping 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 ioping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ioping

Install ioping 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 ioping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ioping

How To Uninstall ioping on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ioping

ioping Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ioping
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/25ff38ebd0120f819876d4b7bee7ec87cb1f0b
/usr/share/doc/ioping
/usr/share/doc/ioping/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ioping/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/ioping
/usr/share/licenses/ioping/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ioping.1.gz

References

Summary

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