How To Install fatrace on Fedora 34

fatrace is Reports file access events from all running processes

Introduction

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

What is fatrace

fatrace reports file access events from all running processes. Its main purpose is to find processes which keep waking up the disk unnecessarily and thus prevent some power saving.

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

Install fatrace 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 fatrace using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fatrace

Install fatrace 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 fatrace using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fatrace

How To Uninstall fatrace on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fatrace

fatrace Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/6e521424356b375b7faaed8d53c50433e802f4
/usr/sbin/fatrace
/usr/sbin/power-usage-report
/usr/share/doc/fatrace
/usr/share/doc/fatrace/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fatrace/NEWS
/usr/share/man/man1/fatrace.1.gz

References

Summary

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