How To Install hardlink on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hardlink on CentOS 8.
What is hardlink
hardlink is used to create a tree of hard links. It’s used by kernel installation to dramatically reduce the amount of disk space used by each kernel package installed.
We can use yum or dnf to install hardlink on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hardlink.
Install hardlink 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 hardlink using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hardlink
Install hardlink 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 hardlink using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hardlink
How To Uninstall hardlink on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hardlink package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hardlink
hardlink Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/29fc087ff8cd180d59b0147a871d0f191149b2
/usr/sbin/hardlink
/usr/share/licenses/hardlink
/usr/share/licenses/hardlink/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/hardlink.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hardlink on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.