Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Gilles
On 23/05/2018 11:57, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Gilles wrote: It looks like the easiest solution to the problem would be cross-compiling fsck on a i386 Linux host, and copying the binary onto the the appliance. It is getting better but usually compiling natively is much

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Gilles wrote: > It looks like the easiest solution to the problem would be cross-compiling > fsck on a i386 Linux host, and copying the binary onto the the appliance. It is getting better but usually compiling natively is much easier. > I only have shallow

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Gilles
On 23/05/2018 11:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Please excuse a comment from a lurker, but I'd suggest that it would be worth having at leastĀ  fdisk -lĀ  capability enabled by default since one of the first things one wants to do when in any sort of development or recovery situation is to work

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 23/05/18 02:15, Paul Wise wrote: I don't know how big the busybox fdisk/fsck support is, but it might be worth reporting a bug on busybox asking for them to be enabled. Alternatively, a bug report asking for a busybox-static-full package containing support for every busybox applet might be a

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Gilles
Edit: Elsewhere, someone mentioned a much easier solution : Just unplug the USB keydrive from the ARM appliance, and perform the fsck onto a PC running Linux. Why didn't I think of this (face-palm) ? Thank you. === Thanks very much for the infos. It looks like the easiest solution to the

Re: Busbox missing fdisk and fsck: How to add?

2018-05-23 Thread Gilles
Thanks very much for the infos. It looks like the easiest solution to the problem would be cross-compiling fsck on a i386 Linux host, and copying the binary onto the the appliance. I only have shallow experience with cross-compiling, though: Is this newbie-doable or am I in for days of