How To Install flashbench on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashbench
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is flashbench
flashbench is:
This utility helps to identify properties of SD cards and flash based storage. In particular it can be used to discover page and segement sizes and maximum number of concurrently open segments. These properties can then be used to better align paritions and tune filesystem options for maximum performance.
There are three methods to install flashbench
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install flashbench Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flashbench
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flashbench
Install flashbench Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flashbench
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flashbench
Install flashbench Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install flashbench
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flashbench
How To Uninstall flashbench on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the flashbench
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flashbench
Uninstall flashbench And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flashbench
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flashbench
Remove flashbench Configurations and Data
To remove flashbench
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flashbench
Remove flashbench configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flashbench
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flashbench
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashbench
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.