Re: question about fdisk

I've always found fdisk in root's path, not the user's.
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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