How To Install xfsprogs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xfsprogs.x86_64 is Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is xfsprogs.x86_64

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.

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

Install xfsprogs.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 xfsprogs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xfsprogs.x86_64

How To Uninstall xfsprogs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xfsprogs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xfsprogs.x86_64

xfsprogs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libhandle.so.1
/usr/lib64/libhandle.so.1.0.3
/usr/sbin/fsck.xfs
/usr/sbin/mkfs.xfs
/usr/sbin/xfs_admin
/usr/sbin/xfs_bmap
/usr/sbin/xfs_copy
/usr/sbin/xfs_db
/usr/sbin/xfs_estimate
/usr/sbin/xfs_freeze
/usr/sbin/xfs_fsr
/usr/sbin/xfs_growfs
/usr/sbin/xfs_info
/usr/sbin/xfs_io
/usr/sbin/xfs_logprint
/usr/sbin/xfs_mdrestore
/usr/sbin/xfs_metadump
/usr/sbin/xfs_mkfile
/usr/sbin/xfs_ncheck
/usr/sbin/xfs_quota
/usr/sbin/xfs_repair
/usr/sbin/xfs_rtcp
/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.5.0
/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.5.0/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.5.0/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.5.0/README
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xfsprogs.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xfsprogs.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/projects.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/projid.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xfs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.xfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_admin.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_bmap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_copy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_db.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_estimate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_freeze.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_fsr.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_growfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_info.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_io.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_logprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_mdrestore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_metadump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_mkfile.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_ncheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_quota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_repair.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfs_rtcp.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.