Information about the package, yum-plugin-fs-snapshot, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The yum-plugin-fs-snapshot package is designed for, Yum plugin to automatically snapshot your filesystems during.
Package Name:
yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
Summary:
Yum plugin to automatically snapshot your filesystems during
Description:
When this plugin is installed it will automatically snapshot any filesystem that is touched by the packages in a yum update or yum remove.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.1.30
Release:
40.el6
Size:
32 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will install yum-plugin-fs-snapshot on the server.
yum remove yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will un-install yum-plugin-fs-snapshot on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-plugin-fs-snapshot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will un-install yum-plugin-fs-snapshot 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 yum-plugin-fs-snapshot when using the -y flag.
yum update yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will update yum-plugin-fs-snapshot to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-plugin-fs-snapshot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will update yum-plugin-fs-snapshot 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 yum-plugin-fs-snapshot when using the -y flag.
yum info yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will show you core information about the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot package.
yum deplist yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will show you the dependencies for yum-plugin-fs-snapshot. 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 yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
This command will check if there is an update waiting on yum-plugin-fs-snapshot. 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.