How To Install partclone on CentOS 8
partclone is Utility to clone and restore a partition
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install partclone on CentOS 8.
What is partclone
Partclone provides utilities to clone and restore used blocks on a partition and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing libraries, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the ext2 partition.
We can use yum or dnf to install partclone on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install partclone.
Install partclone 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 partclone using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install partclone
Install partclone 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 partclone using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install partclone
How To Uninstall partclone on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the partclone package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove partclone
partclone Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/94b33149642a0534b9e9203694fc8421e98f22
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/b374c3993c2dc5d8d4c5525c25da77d2bbbe3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/4164d3a43c518ba3e46bf9d7525c0ca45de113
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/5c65a9dfb990a52b9e49ca0019698a8cfdb716
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/f6927c017fc86704765ed9c48d4d9f90146f4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/a0018efae542f62b59839b13c4b74191be38b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/1712b6f8b72d867e682b8d9e449eebd46961c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/aecdf03c3dbe9b9e44d65289b1835ad63982bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/8be099d5c3d6dbf2f2d0f8d520607e13f54898
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/d867c5ca89f7f3484a507e49c0c513470de50c
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/6ad1254e6c0450f867b4784710da1145f4daed
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/875d1ac5db688491c8eef0f51615e53568c424
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/4df045e9227b65b6a8b0f023200dd4e80a669e
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/a78593a4a3459f6dc0d1572f21ba7929c3e99c
/usr/sbin/partclone.btrfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.chkimg
/usr/sbin/partclone.dd
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext2
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext3
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext4
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext4dev
/usr/sbin/partclone.extfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.f2fs
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat12
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat16
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat32
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfs+
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfsp
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfsplus
/usr/sbin/partclone.imager
/usr/sbin/partclone.info
/usr/sbin/partclone.minix
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfsfixboot
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfsreloc
/usr/sbin/partclone.restore
/usr/sbin/partclone.vfat
/usr/sbin/partclone.xfs
/usr/share/doc/partclone
/usr/share/doc/partclone/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/partclone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/partclone
/usr/share/licenses/partclone/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.btrfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.chkimg.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.dd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext3.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext4.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext4dev.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.extfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.f2fs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat12.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat16.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat32.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfs+.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfsp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfsplus.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.imager.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.info.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.minix.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfsfixboot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfsreloc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.restore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.vfat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.xfs.8.gz
/usr/share/partclone
/usr/share/partclone/fail-mbr.bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install partclone on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.