How To Install quotatool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quotatool on CentOS 7.
What is quotatool
Quotatool is a utility to manipulate filesystem quotas from the commandline. Most quota-utilities are interactive, requiring manual intervention from the user. Quotatool on the other hand is not, making it suitable for use in scripts and other non-interactive situations.
We can use yum or dnf to install quotatool on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quotatool.
Install quotatool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install quotatool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quotatool
Install quotatool 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 quotatool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quotatool
How To Uninstall quotatool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the quotatool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quotatool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quotatool on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.