How To Install vdo-support on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on Rocky Linux 8.
What is vdo-support
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper target that delivers block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. This package provides the user-space support tools for VDO.
We can use yum or dnf to install vdo-support on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vdo-support.
Install vdo-support 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 vdo-support using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vdo-support
Install vdo-support 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 vdo-support using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vdo-support
How To Uninstall vdo-support on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the vdo-support package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vdo-support
vdo-support Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/vdoaudit
/usr/bin/vdodebugmetadata
/usr/bin/vdodumpblockmap
/usr/bin/vdodumpmetadata
/usr/bin/vdolistmetadata
/usr/bin/vdoreadonly
/usr/bin/vdoregenerategeometry
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/45fff6e3b2c4ea3fe8b72f61262ec7719d8eec
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/08854821b525a3f5f38b261fb2199f94c5bb76
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/7d7b28297046694f1ab44406fe29fde6c86ebf
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/148d845ef465a4b1ec7a4cf185bb0c51fd2775
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/52d222cec26d4e4b2f3a87ed27c35d8117a1aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/be0f0d1e132ac42f127a7936c883b1762c5152
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/2f9fedf44e37a69dc52a7cf3943e5cf9a2cb5e
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoaudit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodebugmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodumpblockmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodumpmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdolistmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoreadonly.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoregenerategeometry.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
