How to Install and Uninstall vmfs-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "vmfs-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install vmfs-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                vmfs-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "vmfs-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall vmfs-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                vmfs-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the vmfs-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: vmfs-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.2.5-1build1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/otherosfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mike Hommey
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 253
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Filename: pool/universe/v/vmfs-tools/vmfs-tools_0.2.5-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 54260
MD5sum: 3aa671da9de6e274ead312c69e3d175d
SHA1: 396d22da90927a436c3e1cf8fe153aa479f290b7
SHA256: 8f9f7a2aebd496f24f5e13b31eb58cdc1740785b93b12492775250d3aa97d647
SHA512: 97d8186804b28343b1a6ae4ba60698e685dc535edd7f05a277ccbd9ade34dcf84b04ceb85335ed08de6a4214e7a0f53cce8b41b499cb7ae0ab1a4a68cd1e636d
Description-en: Tools to access VMFS filesystems
VMFS is a clustered filesystem designed to store virtual machine disks for
VMware ESX or ESXi Server hosts. This set of tools allows to access these
filesystems from some other non ESX/ESXi host for e.g. maintenance tasks.
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Only read access is available at the moment, but write access is under
works. Multiple extents are supported.
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The VMFS can be accessed with a command line tool or mounted through a
userspace filesystem (FUSE-based).
Description-md5: 0cdea504f6c5a9da0070eeda2f011352