How To Install bonnie++ on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bonnie++ on CentOS 8.
What is bonnie++
bonnie++ filesystem and disk benchmark suite aggressively reads & writes in various ways on your filesystem then outputs useful benchmark performance data. bonnie++ is also useful as a hardware, disk, and filesystem stability test, exposing some types of hardware or kernel failures that would otherwise be difficult to detect. Do not leave bonnie++ installed on a production system. Use only while you test servers.
We can use yum or dnf to install bonnie++ on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bonnie++.
Install bonnie++ on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bonnie++ using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bonnie++
Install bonnie++ on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bonnie++ using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bonnie++
How To Uninstall bonnie++ on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bonnie++ package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bonnie++
bonnie++ Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/bon_csv2html
/usr/bin/bon_csv2txt
/usr/bin/generate_randfile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/63696744ff7ea42f4f9a381770716dcd4118c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/1900410b4ad3a9e1d7c05fddbcf79e9930cebd
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/68654d86372b6f24f91c4a72198f3eb7672601
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/4e3b414a6e2756450a5e1041159df917202b9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/6c6686b85306c19a5fb644575151a66e54a0c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/28750ce7680d94c13f0b91449912c68ac28a5b
/usr/sbin/bonnie++
/usr/sbin/getc_putc
/usr/sbin/getc_putc_helper
/usr/sbin/zcav
/usr/share/doc/bonnie++
/usr/share/doc/bonnie++/changelog
/usr/share/doc/bonnie++/copyright.txt
/usr/share/doc/bonnie++/credits.txt
/usr/share/doc/bonnie++/readme.html
/usr/share/man/man1/bon_csv2html.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bon_csv2txt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/generate_randfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bonnie++.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/getc_putc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/zcav.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bonnie++ on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.