Re: question about fdisk

From: Joshua Kugler <joshua.kugler@uaf.edu>
Date: Thu Oct 13 2005 - 12:37:28 AKDT

Odd...I just checked on a Redhat 9 box (I didn't install, so might have been
modified) and an RHEL 3 box (I did install, all was default) and neither of
them had the sbin's in the path. Not sure what changed or happened.

j----- k-----

On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:45, larry collier wrote:
> 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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