cephfs-snap command not found

Introduction

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

cephfs-snap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cephfs-snap: command not found

Solutions to cephfs-snap: command not found

How To Fix cephfs-snap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cephfs-snap is provided by open-infrastructure-ceph-tools package.

open-infrastructure-ceph-tools is:

ceph-tools contains the following tools:

• ceph-log: store Ceph cluster log as a logfile
• ceph-info: show Ceph cluster information as a HTML page
• cephfs-snap: create CephFS snapshots periodically
• cephfs-remove-osd: remove a Ceph OSD instance completely

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

sudo apt-get -y install open-infrastructure-ceph-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install open-infrastructure-ceph-tools.

sudo apt -y install open-infrastructure-ceph-tools

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

sudo aptitude install open-infrastructure-ceph-tools

Summary

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