How To Install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8. collectd-disk is Disk plugin for collectd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8.

What is collectd-disk

This plugin collects statistics of harddisk and, where supported, partitions.

We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-disk.

Install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install collectd-disk

Install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install collectd-disk

How To Uninstall collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the collectd-disk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove collectd-disk

collectd-disk Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/7a16f353135ae2915b31a593bf28c1380c6ba4
/usr/lib64/collectd/disk.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-disk on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.