fdisk not found

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Fri Mar 26 01:53:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 20:47 -0500, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 20:33 -0500, Jean Calixte wrote:
> > Hi all. Whenever I try to run fdisk on my computer, I get an error
> > stating that 
> > the command couldn't be found. What package do I install from the CD
> > in order 
> > to get this problem fixed, or do I need to edit my PATH? Any info
> > would help.
> > 
> > Thanks 
> 
> 
> Hi Jean. The fdisk command is in the /sbin directory. To use it try
> 
> /sbin/fdisk
> 
> from the command prompt. To append /sbin to the end of your current path
> use:
> 
> export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/sbin
> 

I should have pointed out that those are back quotes. If you use a
regular parenthesis you will get an error. The backquote is beside the
number 1 on a "standard" US keyboard.





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