How To Install e2fsprogs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs on CentOS 7.
What is e2fsprogs
The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second, third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities. You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem.
We can use yum or dnf to install e2fsprogs on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install e2fsprogs.
Install e2fsprogs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install e2fsprogs using yum by running the following command:
Install e2fsprogs 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.
After updating yum database, We can install e2fsprogs using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall e2fsprogs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the e2fsprogs package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.