How To Install daxio on Fedora 34

daxio is Perform I/O on Device DAX devices or zero a Device DAX device

Introduction

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

What is daxio

The daxio utility performs I/O on Device DAX devices or zero a Device DAX device. Since the standard I/O APIs (read/write) cannot be used with Device DAX, data transfer is performed on a memory-mapped device. The daxio may be used to dump Device DAX data to a file, restore data from a backup copy, move/copy data to another device or to erase data from a device.

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

Install daxio 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 daxio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install daxio

Install daxio 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 daxio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daxio

How To Uninstall daxio on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove daxio

daxio Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/daxio
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/c8b4e0eb9d92afbf49d78ed8001a410c7c99f2
/usr/share/doc/daxio
/usr/share/doc/daxio/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/daxio/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/daxio/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/daxio
/usr/share/licenses/daxio/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/daxio.1.gz

References

Summary

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