How To Install fio on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on CentOS 7.
What is fio
fio is an I/O tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of io action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the io load one wants to simulate.
We can use yum or dnf to install fio on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fio.
Install fio on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fio using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fio
Install fio 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 fio using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fio
How To Uninstall fio on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fio package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fio
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fio on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.