Information about the package, device-mapper-persistent-data, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The device-mapper-persistent-data package is designed for, Device-mapper Persistent Data Tools.
Package Name:
device-mapper-persistent-data
Summary:
Device-mapper Persistent Data Tools
Description:
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
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.6.2
Release:
0.1.rc7.el6
Size:
1.6 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the device-mapper-persistent-data package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will install device-mapper-persistent-data on the server.
yum remove device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will un-install device-mapper-persistent-data on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove device-mapper-persistent-data, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will un-install device-mapper-persistent-data 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 device-mapper-persistent-data when using the -y flag.
yum update device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will update device-mapper-persistent-data to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove device-mapper-persistent-data, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will update device-mapper-persistent-data 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 device-mapper-persistent-data when using the -y flag.
yum info device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will show you core information about the device-mapper-persistent-data package.
yum deplist device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will show you the dependencies for device-mapper-persistent-data. 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 device-mapper-persistent-data
This command will check if there is an update waiting on device-mapper-persistent-data. 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.