mfsnetdump command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mfsnetdump command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mfsnetdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mfsnetdump: command not found

Solutions to mfsnetdump: command not found

How To Fix mfsnetdump: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mfsnetdump is provided by moosefs-netdump package.

moosefs-netdump is:

MooseFS monitoring tool “mfsnetdump” utility which can interpret MooseFS network traffic and show it in colorful form.

MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems:

  • A hierarchical structure (directory tree).
  • POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times).
  • Special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets).
  • Symbolic links and hard links.
  • Access control based on IP address and/or password.

Distinctive features of MooseFS are:

  • High availability.
  • Fault tolerance.
  • Strong integrity check.
  • Capacity is dynamically expandable by simply adding new computers/disks.
  • Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system level “trash bin”).
  • Coherent snapshots of files, even during I/O.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install moosefs-netdump

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install moosefs-netdump.

sudo apt -y install moosefs-netdump

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install moosefs-netdump

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mfsnetdump command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.