How To Install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 is Device-mapper Persistent Data Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64

thin-provisioning-tools contains check,dump,restore,repair,rmap and metadata_size tools to manage device-mapper thin provisioning target metadata devices; cache check,dump,metadata_size,restore and repair tools to manage device-mapper cache metadata devices are included and era check, dump, restore and invalidate to manage snapshot eras

We can use yum to install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64.

Install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64

How To Uninstall device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64

device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/cache_check
/usr/sbin/cache_dump
/usr/sbin/cache_metadata_size
/usr/sbin/cache_repair
/usr/sbin/cache_restore
/usr/sbin/cache_writeback
/usr/sbin/era_check
/usr/sbin/era_dump
/usr/sbin/era_invalidate
/usr/sbin/era_restore
/usr/sbin/pdata_tools
/usr/sbin/thin_check
/usr/sbin/thin_delta
/usr/sbin/thin_dump
/usr/sbin/thin_ls
/usr/sbin/thin_metadata_size
/usr/sbin/thin_repair
/usr/sbin/thin_restore
/usr/sbin/thin_rmap
/usr/sbin/thin_trim
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-persistent-data-0.7.3
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-persistent-data-0.7.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-persistent-data-0.7.3/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_check.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_dump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_metadata_size.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_repair.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_restore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cache_writeback.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/era_check.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/era_dump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/era_invalidate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/era_restore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_check.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_delta.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_dump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_ls.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_metadata_size.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_repair.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_restore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_rmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/thin_trim.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-persistent-data.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.