writeboost command not found

Introduction

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

writeboost: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: writeboost: command not found

Solutions to writeboost: command not found

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

In Ubuntu writeboost is provided by writeboost package.

writeboost is:

Writeboost is a utility to activate dm-writeboost device mappings.

dm-writeboost is an OS-level IO controller that builds logs from in-coming writes (data and metadata) and then writes the logs sequentially similar to log-structured filesystem. As a further extension, dm-writeboost supports read-caching which also writes data sequentially.

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

sudo apt-get -y install writeboost

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

You can also use apt command to install writeboost.

sudo apt -y install writeboost

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

sudo aptitude install writeboost

Summary

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