How to Install and Uninstall eatmydata Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "eatmydata" package

Please follow the guidance below to install eatmydata on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 guidance below to uninstall eatmydata on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: eatmydata
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 21
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo
Architecture: all
Source: libeatmydata
Version: 105-3
Depends: libeatmydata1 (>= 105-3)
Filename: pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/eatmydata_105-3_all.deb
Size: 5502
MD5sum: bc5bc47ea615b69da0f5d3c090c74a91
SHA1: fbbe786e27ed2ef637732c5e26d7c583450e2a3e
SHA256: dfdf1f03e3e9489ea020fed921f24a4377ce515adde9cc331585d6a684800362
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
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/libeatmydata
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: cloud-image