How To Install quotatool on CentOS 8

quotatool is Command-line utility for filesystem quotas

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quotatool on CentOS 8.

What is quotatool

Quotatool is a utility to manipulate filesystem quotas from the commandline. Most quota-utilities are interactive, requiring manual intervention from the user. Quotatool on the other hand is not, making it suitable for use in scripts and other non-interactive situations.

We can use yum or dnf to install quotatool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quotatool.

Install quotatool 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 quotatool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quotatool

Install quotatool 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 quotatool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quotatool

How To Uninstall quotatool on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the quotatool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove quotatool

quotatool Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/54c54136ecfdc3fca0d023262a09c45c6c2b4c
/usr/sbin/quotatool
/usr/share/doc/quotatool
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/README
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/quotatool.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quotatool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.