How To Install fsarchiver on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fsarchiver
on Fedora 34.
What is fsarchiver
FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file-system to a compressed archive file. The file-system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file-system. Unlike tar/dar, FSArchiver also creates the file-system when it extracts the data to partitions. Everything is checksummed in the archive in order to protect the data. If the archive is corrupt, you just lose the current file, not the whole archive.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fsarchiver
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fsarchiver.
Install fsarchiver on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
The output should look something like this:
After updating yum database, We can install fsarchiver
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install fsarchiver on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
The output should look something like this:
After updating yum database, We can install fsarchiver
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall fsarchiver on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fsarchiver
package we can use the following command:
fsarchiver Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fsarchiver
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.