fdisk not found

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Mar 26 01:58:57 UTC 2004



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
>  
>
On my machine fdisk is

$ which fdisk
/sbin/fdisk

it has to be run as root, and the default path for root includes /sbin.  
Did you do "su -" or "su"?  using "su -" sets your environment to be root,  using "su" leaves it as your regular user, thus your own PATH.







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