How To Install fio on CentOS 8
fio is Multithreaded IO generation tool
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on CentOS 8.
What is fio
fio is an I/O tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of io action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the io load one wants to simulate.
We can use yum or dnf to install fio on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fio.
Install fio 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 fio using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fio
Install fio 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 fio using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fio
How To Uninstall fio on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fio package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fio
fio Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fio
/usr/bin/fio-btrace2fio
/usr/bin/fio-dedupe
/usr/bin/fio-genzipf
/usr/bin/fio-verify-state
/usr/bin/fio2gnuplot
/usr/bin/fio_generate_plots
/usr/bin/fio_jsonplus_clat2csv
/usr/bin/fiologparser.py
/usr/bin/fiologparser_hist.py
/usr/bin/genfio
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/8a9a6540d4d4a8247e07553d72cde921c4379b
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/43de0b6cb40d8dc00880f5aec9c58f99505a14
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/04fd1f459461cd77a2ddb0a05678bf86f20361
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/aaa03019b45ff1c0d039aa0f82e90664701e09
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/14bf0bd1ab450e09e4dc97d707fd4b5004ea05
/usr/share/doc/fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fio/GFIO-TODO
/usr/share/doc/fio/HOWTO
/usr/share/doc/fio/MORAL-LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fio/README
/usr/share/doc/fio/REPORTING-BUGS
/usr/share/doc/fio/SERVER-TODO
/usr/share/doc/fio/STEADYSTATE-TODO
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/1mbs_clients.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/aio-read.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/backwards-read.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/basic-verify.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/butterfly.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/cpp_null.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/cpuio.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/cross-stripe-verify.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/dev-dax.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/disk-zone-profile.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/e4defrag.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/e4defrag2.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/enospc-pressure.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/exitwhat.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/falloc.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/filecreate-ioengine.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/filestat-ioengine.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-rand-RW.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-rand-read.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-rand-write.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-seq-RW.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-seq-read.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fio-seq-write.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fixed-rate-submission.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/flow.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/fsx.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/ftruncate.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/gfapi.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/gpudirect-rdmaio-client.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/gpudirect-rdmaio-server.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/http-s3.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/http-swift.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/http-webdav.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/ime.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/iometer-file-access-server.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/jesd219.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/latency-profile.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/libhdfs.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/libiscsi.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/libpmem.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/mtd.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/nbd.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/netio.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/netio_multicast.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/null.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/numa.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/pmemblk.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/poisson-rate-submission.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/rados.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/rand-zones.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/rbd.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/rdmaio-client.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/rdmaio-server.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/ssd-steadystate.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/ssd-test.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/steadystate.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/surface-scan.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/tiobench-example.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/waitfor.fio
/usr/share/doc/fio/examples/zipf.fio
/usr/share/fio
/usr/share/fio/graph2D.gpm
/usr/share/fio/graph3D.gpm
/usr/share/fio/math.gpm
/usr/share/man/man1/fio.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fio2gnuplot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fio_generate_plots.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fiologparser_hist.py.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.