Information about the package, devio, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The devio package is designed for, Read and write utility for block devices.
Package Name:
devio
Summary:
Read and write utility for block devices
Description:
devio is a command line utility intended to read and write on block devices. The primary difference between devio and other command line utilities, such as dd and cat, is that it is not stream based - it writes directly into the object rather than reading and writing a stream of data.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
19 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the devio package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install devio
This command will install devio on the server.
yum remove devio
This command will un-install devio on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove devio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove devio
This command will un-install devio 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 devio when using the -y flag.
yum update devio
This command will update devio to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove devio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update devio
This command will update devio 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 devio when using the -y flag.
yum info devio
This command will show you core information about the devio package.
yum deplist devio
This command will show you the dependencies for devio. 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 devio
This command will check if there is an update waiting on devio. 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.