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xfsprogs


Information about the package, xfsprogs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xfsprogs package is designed for, Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem.


Package Name:

xfsprogs

Summary:

Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem

Description:

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. Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ for complete details. This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version of XFS.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.1.1

Release:

20.el6

Size:

3.2 M

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

base

Licence:

GPL+ and LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for xfsprogs


Control the xfsprogs package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install xfsprogs

This command will install xfsprogs on the server.

yum remove xfsprogs

This command will un-install xfsprogs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xfsprogs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove xfsprogs

This command will un-install xfsprogs 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 xfsprogs when using the -y flag.

yum update xfsprogs

This command will update xfsprogs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xfsprogs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update xfsprogs

This command will update xfsprogs 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 xfsprogs when using the -y flag.

yum info xfsprogs

This command will show you core information about the xfsprogs package.

yum deplist xfsprogs

This command will show you the dependencies for xfsprogs. 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 xfsprogs

This command will check if there is an update waiting on xfsprogs. 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.