How To Install device-mapper on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper in Fedora 36. device-mapper is Device mapper utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper on Fedora 36.

What is `device-mapper`

This package contains the supporting userspace utility, dmsetup, for the kernel device-mapper.

We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper.

Install device-mapper on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper

Install device-mapper on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper

How To Uninstall device-mapper on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the device-mapper package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove device-mapper

device-mapper Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/528afb2fe390b6ca1bfc6f5f0442f4e348daca
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/48528d67b0ea7c8101cfe7255f4d9143aa390f
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-dm.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/13-dm-disk.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/95-dm-notify.rules
/usr/sbin/blkdeactivate
/usr/sbin/dmfilemapd
/usr/sbin/dmsetup
/usr/sbin/dmstats
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper/12-dm-permissions.rules
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper/README
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper/VERSION_DM
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper/WHATS_NEW_DM
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man8/blkdeactivate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dmfilemapd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dmsetup.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dmstats.8.gz

References

device-mapper website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).