How To Install bindfs on Fedora 34

bindfs is Fuse filesystem to mirror a directory

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bindfs on Fedora 34.

What is bindfs

Bindfs allows you to mirror a directory and also change the the permissions in the mirror directory.

We can use yum or dnf to install bindfs on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bindfs.

Install bindfs on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bindfs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bindfs

Install bindfs on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bindfs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bindfs

How To Uninstall bindfs on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bindfs

bindfs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bindfs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/c02a74bf515b3223f917ec80a3627542bc0365
/usr/share/doc/bindfs
/usr/share/doc/bindfs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/bindfs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bindfs
/usr/share/licenses/bindfs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bindfs.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bindfs on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.