Information about the package, seeker, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The seeker package is designed for, Random access disk benchmark utility.
Package Name:
seeker
Summary:
Random access disk benchmark utility
Description:
Seeker is a simple utility that reads small pieces of data from a raw disk device in a random access pattern, and reports the average number of seeks per second, and calculated random access time of the disk. The seeker variant included in this package is the multithreaded one by Witold Baryluk.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0
Release:
2.el6
Size:
35 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and CC-BY-SA
Control the seeker package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install seeker
This command will install seeker on the server.
yum remove seeker
This command will un-install seeker on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove seeker, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove seeker
This command will un-install seeker on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove seeker when using the -y flag.
yum update seeker
This command will update seeker to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove seeker, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update seeker
This command will update seeker to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove seeker when using the -y flag.
yum info seeker
This command will show you core information about the seeker package.
yum deplist seeker
This command will show you the dependencies for seeker. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update seeker
This command will check if there is an update waiting on seeker. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.