How To Install scrub on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scrub
on CentOS 7.
What is scrub
Scrub writes patterns on files or disk devices to make retrieving the data more difficult. It operates in one of three modes scrubbed and all data on it is destroyed; 2) a regular file is scrubbed and only the data in the file (and optionally its name in the directory entry) is destroyed; or 3) a regular file is created, expanded until the file system is full, then scrubbed as in 2).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install scrub
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scrub.
Install scrub on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install scrub
using yum
by running the following command:
Install scrub 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 scrub
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall scrub on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the scrub
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scrub
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.