How To Install fsarchiver on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fsarchiver on Fedora 36.
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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fsarchiver.
Install fsarchiver 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 fsarchiver using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fsarchiver
Install fsarchiver 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 fsarchiver using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fsarchiver
How To Uninstall fsarchiver on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the fsarchiver package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fsarchiver
fsarchiver Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/e898d327f45156e1afd36ad30bc85d63e294ff
/usr/sbin/fsarchiver
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/README
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/fsarchiver
/usr/share/licenses/fsarchiver/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fsarchiver.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fsarchiver on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).