lubuntu-14.04-alternate-powerpc.iso missing fsadm so lvreduce --resizefs aborts...

[Israel]

Hi,
Did you do a md5sum of the image file you downloaded?
It is an odd thing we sometimes forget that can cause really wacky
problems in my experience.

On 07/02/2014 10:22 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
> But apt-get is also not available from that shell prompt and 
>
> find / -name apt-get -print
>
> does not find anything.
>
> Similarly for sudo. (One is already "root" in this CD-boot context so
> I doubt sudo is ever required.)
>
> Notably
>
> find / -name 'lvr*' -print
>
> finds the relevant /sbin/lvr* lvm programs just fine. But fsadm is
> missing.
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> markmi at dsl-only.net <mailto:markmi at dsl-only.net>
>
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com
> <mailto:andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The command is*sudo apt-get install **lvm2*
>
> Sorry about the first email...
>
>
> 2014-07-03 0:08 GMT-03:00 Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com
> <mailto:andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>>:
>
>     do a *sudo apt-get install fsadm*
>
>
>     2014-07-02 22:44 GMT-03:00 Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net
>     <mailto:markmi at dsl-only.net>>:
>
>         Selecting to boot the CD for "rescue-powerpc", selecting to
>         not mount a root file system from the PowerMac, selecting to
>         get to the shell, and typing
>
>         find / -name fsadm -print
>
>         does not find a fsadm anywhere.
>
>         Naturally enough typing "fsadm -h" at the command prompt
>         results in the message
>
>         /bin/sh: fsadm: not found
>
>
>         ===
>         Mark Millard
>         markmi at dsl-only.net <http://dsl-only.net/>
>
>         On Jul 2, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at PhillW.net
>         <mailto:PhillW at PhillW.net>> wrote:
>
>         can you report the outcome of 
>
>         fsadm -h
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Phill.
>
>
>         On 3 July 2014 01:52, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net
>         <mailto:markmi at dsl-only.net>> wrote:
>
>             I wanted to release about 45G Bytes of free space from a
>             root file system that is in lvm and so I tried to use a CD
>             built from lubuntu-14.04-alternate-powerpc.iso to do
>             lvreduce --resizefs. Unfortunately the attempted use of
>             lvreduce reports that it could not find fsadm (and fsadm
>             is not in the live file system's /sbin/ with the lv* tools).
>
>             Part of the purpose for "rescue-powerpc" (and the like)
>             should be to do operations that can not be done with a
>             live (root) filesystem.  Looks like this specific kind of
>             example of that has been missed.
>
>             I have not checked if other processor families have
>             similar issues for their "alternate" CDs or if the issue
>             is specific to lubuntu vs. existing in other ubuntu
>             variants. Nor have I checked other types of .iso's for
>             powerpc.
>
>             ===
>             Mark Millard
>             markmi at dsl-only.net <http://dsl-only.net/>
>
>
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