Re: question about fdisk

I'm writing this on FC3, I use FC4x64 at home. I've used nearly every
redhat release since 5.2. /sbin and /usr/sbin have always been in
root's path.

Larry

Joshua Kugler wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 18:33, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday 12 October 2005 06:27 pm, Bob Crowe wrote:
>>
>>>Howdy,
>>> I have FC3 (I gave up on FC4...I think I have a corrupted disk) and
>>>I'm trying to check out the fdisk utility. I open a terminal, log in as
>>>superuser than enter "fdisk /dev/hda" and I get this message "bash:
>>>fdisk: command not found" I thought fdisk came automatically with FC3?
>>>Does anyone have any suggestions? Also I used this site to setup my FC3
>>>reinstallation and it solved a lot of problems for me including my
>>>multimedia playability, it also has a guide for FC4 for those that are
>>>interested. Take care, Bob.
>>>
>>>http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_3_installation_notes.html
>>
>>It might be a PATH issue, have you tried '/sbin/fdisk' ? That is needed on
>>some distro I looked at once, long ago, far away. 'whereis fdisk' might
>>tell you where it is located.
>
>
> That seems to be a "left over" from the Redhat way of doing things. /sbin
> and /usr/sbin are never in root's PATH. Why? I have no idea. All my other
> boxes (Mandrake and CentOS) have the sbin's in root's path, and whenever I
> get on a Redhat box (we have two left over that we haven't upgraded) it
> sometimes takes me 15 seconds to realize why I can't find any commands. :)
>
> j----- k-----
>
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Received on Thu Oct 13 10:46:03 2005