How To Install fdflush on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdflush on Debian 11.
What is fdflush
fdflush is:
fdflush is a band-aid for floppy (or other) drives with bad disk-change sensing. fdflush makes the system believe the disk-change switch has been triggered forcing the system to discard the buffered data.
If you have one of these slightly-broken disk drives, you’ll have to run fdflush every time you change a disk.
fdflush is useful for computers which might be sleeping when you change floppies or other removable media.
The command “floppycontrol -f” does the same thing, but the fdutils package is significantly larger; it only uses the floppy-specific flush ioctl.
The command “blockdev –flushbufs” only uses the generic flush ioctl.
There are three methods to install fdflush on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fdflush Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fdflush using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fdflush
Install fdflush Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fdflush using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fdflush
Install fdflush Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fdflush using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fdflush
How To Uninstall fdflush on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fdflush package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fdflush
Uninstall fdflush And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fdflush and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fdflush
Remove fdflush Configurations and Data
To remove fdflush configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fdflush
Remove fdflush configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fdflush configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fdflush
Dependencies
fdflush have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fdflush package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.