How to Install and Uninstall libfallocate0 Package on openSUSE Leap

Last updated: January 24,2025

1. Install "libfallocate0" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libfallocate0 on openSUSE Leap


    
        
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                libfallocate0
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libfallocate0" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libfallocate0 on openSUSE Leap:


    
        
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3. Information about the libfallocate0 package on openSUSE Leap

Information for package libfallocate0:
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Repository : Main Repository
Name : libfallocate0
Version : 0.1.1-bp155.3.10
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 17.6 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : libfallocate-0.1.1-bp155.3.10.src
Upstream URL : http://libfallocate.sf.net/
Summary : Filesystem preallocation interface library
Description :
libfallocate provides an interface for applications to tell filesystems
about the size of to-be-written files, so the filesystem can do a better
job in taking allocation decisions to avoid fragmentation.
libfallocate provides a wrapper for the fallocate() syscall in case your
glibc (<2.10) does not have it yet. It also provides linux_fallocate()
which will attempt the space reservation ioctl that xfs and ocfs2
provide in case fallocate() did not succeed.
It has an additional richer interface fallocate_with_fallback() that
allows you to instruct it to fallback to do preallocation by zeroing
things out (like posix_fallocate()) or to extend the file size by a sparse
write (like a successful fallocate() with mode==0 would have done).