How To Install vmtouch on Fedora 34

vmtouch is Portable file system cache diagnostics and control

Introduction

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

What is vmtouch

Vmtouch is a tool for learning about and controlling the file system cache of Unix and Unix-like systems.

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

Install vmtouch 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 vmtouch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vmtouch

Install vmtouch 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 vmtouch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vmtouch

How To Uninstall vmtouch on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vmtouch

vmtouch Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vmtouch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/971edc23a478ccfe77d8e727b905f356dc2cc0
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/TODO
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/TUNING.md
/usr/share/man/man8/vmtouch.8.gz

References

Summary

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