How To Install lockdev on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lockdev
on CentOS 7.
What is lockdev
Lockdev provides a reliable way to put an exclusive lock to devices using both FSSTND and SVr4 methods. Lockdev provides a reliable way to put an exclusive lock to devices using both FSSTND and SVr4 methods.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lockdev
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lockdev.
Install lockdev on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lockdev
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lockdev 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 lockdev
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lockdev on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lockdev
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lockdev
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.