How To Install afuse on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install afuse on CentOS 7.
What is afuse
Afuse is an automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE. Afuse currently implements the most basic functionality that can be expected by an automounter; that is it manages a directory of virtual directories. If one of these virtual directories is accessed and is not already automounted, afuse will attempt to mount a filesystem onto that directory. If the mount succeeds the requested access proceeds as normal, otherwise it will fail with an error.
We can use yum or dnf to install afuse on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install afuse.
Install afuse on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install afuse using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install afuse
Install afuse on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install afuse using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install afuse
How To Uninstall afuse on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the afuse package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove afuse
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install afuse on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.