pishrink.sh: ERROR occurred in line 216: pi.img is not a file... about pishrink HOT 8 CLOSED

I got exactly the same error.

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What's the result of

ls -la pi.img

?

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pi@pi:/media/pi/THUMBZILLA $ ls -la *
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4294967295 Jul 18 09:44 oldpi.img

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Hm ... according this description

-f file
              True if file exists and is a regular file.

A regular file is something that isn't a directory, symlink, socket, device, etc.

you shouldn't get the error message 😕

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It is very peculiar. The image in on a mounted thumb drive. I tried gzip, then reloaded it on another SD card with the PI Imager - nothing weird about the image. I've also used successfully used pishrink.sh before...

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pishrink doesn't work correctly if run directly on an external drive. you'll need to copy the file over to your filesystem and then back again once you've shrank the file.

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I get the same error. No, its not on a external drive.

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Try giving the full path to the file instead of a relative path. If there are spaces in the path be sure to put it in quotes

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