How to Install and Uninstall eatmydata Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "eatmydata" package

This guide let you learn how to install eatmydata on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                eatmydata
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "eatmydata" package

Learn how to uninstall eatmydata on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                eatmydata
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the eatmydata package on Kali Linux

Package: eatmydata
Source: libeatmydata
Version: 131-1
Installed-Size: 21
Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo
Architecture: all
Depends: libeatmydata1 (>= 131-1)
Size: 7472
SHA256: 7a06d1b47fcc7f4784affea446b6100dc72d2a96f25137c4bcdf90ce737032ef
SHA1: d259710fedbf2afcdfc6f2e87aa67e82ebfbd75c
MD5sum: e5001c7312260c290a18217035f16484
Description: Library and utilities designed to disable fsync and friends
This package contains a small LD_PRELOAD library (libeatmydata) and a couple
of helper utilities designed to transparently disable fsync and friends (like
open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making software that writes data
safely to disk a lot quicker and making this software no longer crash safe.
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You will find eatmydata useful if particular software calls fsync(), sync()
etc. frequently but the data it stores is not that valuable to you and you may
afford losing it in case of system crash. Data-to-disk synchronization calls
are typically very slow on modern file systems and their extensive usage might
slow down software significantly. It does not make sense to accept such a hit
in performance if data being manipulated is not very important.
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On the other hand, do not use eatmydata when you care about what software
stores or it manipulates important components of your system. The library is
called libEAT-MY-DATA for a reason.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/eatmydata_131-1_all.deb