How to Install and Uninstall vmfs6-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "vmfs6-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install vmfs6-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "vmfs6-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall vmfs6-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                vmfs6-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the vmfs6-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: vmfs6-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1.0-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/otherosfs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Thomas Ward
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 307
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Filename: pool/universe/v/vmfs6-tools/vmfs6-tools_0.1.0-3_amd64.deb
Size: 59496
MD5sum: be4245eccabfe20ab20bcc4e9d619596
SHA1: 5f67fac85fb05268a1ad989d81d8a89a8c5ddb46
SHA256: 5753810c1ecb5d479e897941f6e7ad73cbc8f7939321277e54fa93603b13128e
SHA512: f560f3d9a03b83a787f3db67f773eb9b8a046f5bcd3f7d8a0faaef848000f8d20de133c1bbc6dca5372282307959ea7d681d8b19a2a6f210057159c649cbef49
Homepage: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/vmfs6-tools
Description-en: Tools to access VMFS6 filesystems
VMFS6 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).
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This version of VMFS Tools is designed to work with VMFS6, it is not
guaranteed to support VMFS5; if you need VMFS5 support, then use the
vmfs-tools package instead.
Description-md5: 2b7e7c664f42a3b931917a9adac24e38