How To Install vdo-support on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on CentOS 8.
What is vdo-support
Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper target that delivers block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning. This package provides the user-space support tools for VDO.
We can use yum or dnf to install vdo-support on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vdo-support.
Install vdo-support 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 vdo-support using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vdo-support
Install vdo-support 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 vdo-support using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vdo-support
How To Uninstall vdo-support on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vdo-support package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vdo-support
vdo-support Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/vdoaudit
/usr/bin/vdodebugmetadata
/usr/bin/vdodumpblockmap
/usr/bin/vdodumpmetadata
/usr/bin/vdolistmetadata
/usr/bin/vdoreadonly
/usr/bin/vdoregenerategeometry
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/9c4b7f48784a4b31137a320202f84a5a8e5625
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/cc5578931d45a7e169e47285bfcfd53e9efe6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/42b0b532f3f18dc58d14df8c89c9a6c3121514
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/2a9f86bfd552c5157361166a3cf34bd8ec266d
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/a671fbc027d06261b9b2e38e328ae91389a3f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/0ac080bd6e1cfe90e77a789108b3a1f504d9e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/00e1585041b7b6210ee5f105cb2d3772740898
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoaudit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodebugmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodumpblockmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdodumpmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdolistmetadata.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoreadonly.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vdoregenerategeometry.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdo-support on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.