Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is blkreplay-examples
blkreplay-examples is:
blkreplay is a utility driving the block layer of the operating
system while measuring latency and throughput of I/O operations
for later visualisation.
blkreplay can create artificial loads (random read-write sweeps,
various kinds of overload tests) or replay natural loads which
have been recorded by blktrace or a similar utility run at
production servers.
blkreplay can be used to test physical hardware, to compare
different brands of hard disks or RAID controllers, to
evaluate the effect of SSD caching, to compare different
block level transports like iSCSI vs Fibrechannel and so on.
This package contains example configuration files and example
loads, artifician and natural.
There are three methods to install blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install blkreplay-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install blkreplay-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install blkreplay-examples
Install blkreplay-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install blkreplay-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install blkreplay-examples
Install blkreplay-examples Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install blkreplay-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install blkreplay-examples
How To Uninstall blkreplay-examples on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the blkreplay-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove blkreplay-examples
Uninstall blkreplay-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall blkreplay-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove blkreplay-examples
Remove blkreplay-examples Configurations and Data
To remove blkreplay-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge blkreplay-examples
Remove blkreplay-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove blkreplay-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blkreplay-examples
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blkreplay-examples package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
