How To Install quota-rpc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-rpc on CentOS 8.
What is quota-rpc
The RPC daemon allows to query and set disk quotas over network. If you run the daemon on NFS server, you could use quota tools to manage the quotas from NFS client.
We can use yum or dnf to install quota-rpc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota-rpc.
Install quota-rpc 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 quota-rpc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quota-rpc
Install quota-rpc 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 quota-rpc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quota-rpc
How To Uninstall quota-rpc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the quota-rpc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quota-rpc
quota-rpc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/rpc-rquotad
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/2ce0c6bae2fc3ce1ab9f762785f4459ce7516b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpc-rquotad.service
/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad
/usr/share/doc/quota-rpc
/usr/share/doc/quota-rpc/Changelog
/usr/share/man/man8/rpc.rquotad.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-rpc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.