How to Install and Uninstall xfsprogs.x86_64 Package on CentOS Stream 8

Last updated: March 29,2024

1. Install "xfsprogs.x86_64" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install xfsprogs.x86_64 on CentOS Stream 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install xfsprogs.x86_64

2. Uninstall "xfsprogs.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall xfsprogs.x86_64 on CentOS Stream 8:

$ sudo dnf remove xfsprogs.x86_64 $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the xfsprogs.x86_64 package on CentOS Stream 8

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Available Packages
Name : xfsprogs
Version : 5.0.0
Release : 12.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 1.1 M
Source : xfsprogs-5.0.0-12.el8.src.rpm
Repository : baseos
Summary : Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
URL : https://xfs.wiki.kernel.org
License : GPL+ and LGPLv2+
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.
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: This implementation is on-disk compatible with the IRIX version
: of XFS.