Re: question about fdisk

Very strange that we get such divergent setups. I always install
"custom". Recently, I install everything but prior to about rh9, I'd
pick and choose. Other than the install type, there aren't that many
decision points that would, logically anyway, cause redhat's bizarre
view of what's proper to change.

Larry

Joshua Kugler wrote:
> 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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