How To Install seeker on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install seeker on Fedora 34.
What is seeker
Seeker is a simple utility that reads small pieces of data from a raw disk device in a random access pattern, and reports the average number of seeks per second, and calculated random access time of the disk. The seeker variant included in this package is the multithreaded one by Witold Baryluk.
We can use yum or dnf to install seeker on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install seeker.
Install seeker 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 seeker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install seeker
Install seeker 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 seeker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install seeker
How To Uninstall seeker on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the seeker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove seeker
seeker Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/1c4a3b53e22728aeec52ed8d045d6022176209
/usr/sbin/seeker
/usr/share/doc/seeker
/usr/share/doc/seeker/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk.html
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/disk_random_access_time.png
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/disk_seeks_per_second.png
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/disk_sequential_access.png
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/hard_disk_drive.jpg
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/logo.gif
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/style.css
/usr/share/doc/seeker/how_fast_is_your_disk_files/system-menus.css
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seeker on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.