How To Install kpartx on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kpartx
on CentOS 7.
What is kpartx
kpartx manages partition creation and removal for device-mapper devices.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kpartx
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kpartx.
Install kpartx on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install kpartx
using yum
by running the following command:
Install kpartx 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 kpartx
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall kpartx on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kpartx
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kpartx
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.