How to Install and Uninstall eatmydata Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "eatmydata" package

Learn how to install eatmydata on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall eatmydata on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: eatmydata
Architecture: all
Version: 105-9
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Source: libeatmydata
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 24
Depends: libeatmydata1 (>= 105-9)
Filename: pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/eatmydata_105-9_all.deb
Size: 5512
MD5sum: 1bb725beed99ddd52dd6e6e5c01a9b99
SHA1: c4b28f84870a630d2a4cb2ce8f44676f1ab800a8
SHA256: 75da018a821fbe9be897595e995514da1ac308996502b5f7ead7ad5009d6c6e2
SHA512: 96b2df002c446d20fa7385fa2f20320f899acb0361317526bee1178c9b2aae4310e1658f19cbfc3ceade834ae91e9ca3c30a5d4e216d59f9afa18887f70d7e98
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/libeatmydata
Description-en: 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: 4dad1280628a46c312954a4d1ba76a96
Task: cloud-image