How To Install readonly-root on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install readonly-root on CentOS 8.
What is readonly-root
This package provides script & configuration file for setting up read-only root support. Additional configuration is required after installation.
We can use yum or dnf to install readonly-root on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install readonly-root.
Install readonly-root 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 readonly-root using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install readonly-root
Install readonly-root 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 readonly-root using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install readonly-root
How To Uninstall readonly-root on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the readonly-root package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove readonly-root
readonly-root Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/rwtab
/etc/statetab
/etc/sysconfig/readonly-root
/usr/lib/systemd/system/readonly-root.service
/usr/libexec/readonly-root
/var/lib/stateless
/var/lib/stateless/state
/var/lib/stateless/writable
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install readonly-root on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.