How To Install xfsprogs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs on CentOS 8.
What is xfsprogs
A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs. XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS. A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs. XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS. A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs. XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS.
We can use yum or dnf to install xfsprogs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xfsprogs.
Install xfsprogs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xfsprogs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xfsprogs
Install xfsprogs 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 xfsprogs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xfsprogs
How To Uninstall xfsprogs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xfsprogs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xfsprogs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.