How To Install parted on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parted on CentOS 8.
What is parted
The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
We can use yum or dnf to install parted on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install parted.
Install parted on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install parted using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install parted
Install parted on CentOS 8 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 parted using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install parted
How To Uninstall parted on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the parted package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove parted
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parted on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.