bonnie++

austrianadmin

hi, my next question is concerning the exercise 17.2 bonnie++

On Debian12 as you can see in the screenshot i have an entry man for bonnie++ but no command or help functions...any idea??

luisviveropena

Hi Berni,

1.- Did you performed a minimal installation of Debian? Perhaps you did that and the documentation is missing. I'm running Debian 13 and I have two things:

i.- Man pages for bonnie++ as normal user, as:

man bonnie++

ii.- The resume for the command, using sudo:

luis@debiansrv:~$ sudo bonnie++ help
usage:
bonnie++ [-d scratch-dir] [-c concurrency] [-s size(MiB)[:chunk-size(b)]]
[-n number-to-stat[:max-size[:min-size][:num-directories[:chunk-size]]]]
[-m machine-name] [-r ram-size-in-MiB]
[-x number-of-tests] [-u uid-to-use:gid-to-use] [-g gid-to-use]
[-q] [-f] [-b] [-p processes | -y] [-z seed | -Z random-file]
[-D]

Note: in this case there isn't a separate package for the documentation.

2.- In case you don't have the documentation, you can install it as follows:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install man-db manpages

Regards,
Luis.

luisviveropena

Hi Berni,

1.- Let's check if bonnie++ is installed on your system:

luis@debiansrv:~$ dpkg -l | grep bonnie
ii bonnie++ 2.00a+nmu3 amd64 Hard drive benchmark suite

If not, install it:

sudo install bonnie++

I see you have an issue with the repositories, you need to solve that.

2.- Are you running any IoT system here? I mean if you are using any specific distro for embedded systems.

Regards,
Luis.

austrianadmin

Bonnie++

Hi Luis, followed your steps exactly, but...command not found and already the latest man-db manpages...any ideas?

thanks

best regards

berni

austrianadmin

Hi Luis,

of course with su - also the bonnie++ help command functions..thanks again.

Regarding the repository issue..IoT System??...embedded system??. can you specify that?.
The System is Debian GNU/Linux12(bookworm)
Than i run BOXES on the System with an ALMALinux 10 and an openSUSE tumbleweed Virtual Machine.

I will install Debian 13 Trixie as you recommended..

Thanks again for supporting my Linux Admin Skills!!

Best regards

Berni