How To Install partclone on Fedora 34

partclone is Utility to clone and restore a partition

Introduction

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

What is partclone

Partclone provides utilities to clone and restore used blocks on a partition and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing libraries, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the ext2 partition.

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

Install partclone 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 partclone using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install partclone

Install partclone 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 partclone using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install partclone

How To Uninstall partclone on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove partclone

partclone Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/caa718dd7721bd6edfdec4a5cd5cfb9dac5a18
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/3b4b2605aeab12eccba9672d25481039927a08
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/70c30676a34157ef02fa0f2a4a84412076b411
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/71f29c735df44fcfb3ec59fdeb389e740f088e
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/53ccef2fb39b7b42ae21a8ec736271d300f654
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/6088dc8cd544e9a77207ecfb78ab8d8419596b
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/56385b2c6c53b098142ee9fbb6df8b23246b5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/2d5b7c8de056d6d0f9d02ff32a2b36a1646bb9
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/b2ebeaab6ea1db95da631e80cbf3a3d08d7822
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/b6e120e37bc78201cdd52bf5ab01774e8341b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/425644f114f447a6087e5772e296a6e3a4ee7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/8febb45817ba99be8b9a6b0d3343187e073cbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/56dfcbbcc96635620d5b96769717dfd5e2d933
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/b2364ff0f10c5fbc22c7349f5b5b80cfe5ee4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/4b85df5b3aae1b25ebed05fe0b6c54a5ff214a
/usr/sbin/partclone.btrfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.chkimg
/usr/sbin/partclone.dd
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext2
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext3
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext4
/usr/sbin/partclone.ext4dev
/usr/sbin/partclone.extfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.f2fs
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat12
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat16
/usr/sbin/partclone.fat32
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfs+
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfsp
/usr/sbin/partclone.hfsplus
/usr/sbin/partclone.imager
/usr/sbin/partclone.info
/usr/sbin/partclone.minix
/usr/sbin/partclone.nilfs2
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfs
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfsfixboot
/usr/sbin/partclone.ntfsreloc
/usr/sbin/partclone.restore
/usr/sbin/partclone.vfat
/usr/sbin/partclone.xfs
/usr/share/doc/partclone
/usr/share/doc/partclone/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/partclone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/partclone
/usr/share/licenses/partclone/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/partclone.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.btrfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.chkimg.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.dd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext3.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext4.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ext4dev.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.extfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.f2fs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat12.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat16.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.fat32.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfs+.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfsp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.hfsplus.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.imager.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.info.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.minix.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.nilfs2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfsfixboot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.ntfsreloc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.restore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.vfat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/partclone.xfs.8.gz
/usr/share/partclone
/usr/share/partclone/fail-mbr.bin

References

Summary

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