Calypso is a GUI-based disk calibration tool that makes it easy to align disks for optimal performance. This tutorial will walk you through the steps needed to install Calypso on a machine running Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before installing Calypso tool, we need to install a few dependencies. Run the following command in a terminal window:
sudo dnf install gcc gtk3-devel libblockdev-crypto-devel libblockdev-devel libblockdev-fs-devel libblockdev-loop-devel libblockdev-mdraid-devel libblockdev-part-devel libblockdev-utils-devel libbytesize-devel libbytesize-doc libbytesize-headers libbytesize-tools libbytesize-utils libsepol-devel make
This command will install all the required dependencies for calypso.
Now, we will download the source code for Calypso from the official website. Run the below command to download the source code.
curl -OL https://keithp.com/calypso/calypso-3.3.tar.xz
Once the download is complete, extract the content of the archive using the following command:
tar xvf calypso-3.3.tar.xz
This will extract the content in the current directory.
In this step, we will compile and install the Calypso tool.
cd calypso-3.3
./configure
make
sudo make install
This will configure, compile and install Calypso on your system.
After installation, you can confirm the installation by running the following command in a terminal window:
calypso
If the Calypso tool launches successfully, then the installation is complete.
Calypso is a powerful tool for aligning disks on Linux systems. In this tutorial, you learned how to install Calypso on a machine running Fedora CoreOS Latest. By following this tutorial, you should now be able to use Calypso to align your disks for optimal performance.
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