How To Install zerofree on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zerofree
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is zerofree
zerofree is a utility to set unused filesystem inodes and blocks of an ext2/3/4 filesystem to zero. This can improve the compressibility and privacy of an ext2/3/4 filesystem. This tool was inspired by the ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch described in a Linux kernel mailing list thread. WARNING read-only. The tool tries to check this before running, but you should be careful.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install zerofree
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zerofree.
Install zerofree on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install zerofree
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install zerofree on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install zerofree
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall zerofree on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the zerofree
package we can use the following command:
zerofree Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zerofree
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.