The command fdisk behaves strangely

Gins · 10-28-2006, 10:52 AM

I installed the Fedora Core5 operating system 3 or 4 days ago. It works fine. What is the problem with the fdisk command. As you see in the following, I tried both as a regualr user and root user.

[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$

[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]# fdisk
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]#

Please tell me, if you can, the problem here.

frob23 · 10-28-2006, 11:00 AM

fdisk isn't in your path. Try /sbin/fdisk -l

michaelk · 10-28-2006, 11:05 AM

fdisk should be in the /sbin directory. /sbin might not be in the users environment path. Using su for root will still use the users path environment (now that is a sentence). Instead use:
su -

Gins · 10-28-2006, 11:08 AM

[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$ /sbin/fdisk -l
[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$

[It doesn't work as a regular user. But it works as a root user.]
What is the problem?

[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4552 36563908+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 4553 24321 158794492+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 4553 4561 72261 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4562 14264 77939316 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 14265 14417 1228941 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8 14418 14418 8001 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda9 14419 14419 8001 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda10 14420 15183 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 15184 24321 73400953+ 83 Linux
[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]#

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[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/Nissanka/bin
[root@c83-250-99-43 Nissanka]#

[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/Nissanka/bin
[Nissanka@c83-250-99-43 ~]$

michaelk · 10-28-2006, 11:33 AM

Quote:

[It doesn't work as a regular user. But it works as a root user.]
What is the problem?

Nothing. fdisk only "works" with root

Distributions set the default paths differently. Can be easily modified via .bash_profile for the user or globally via /etc/profile.

Gins · 10-28-2006, 11:42 AM

Thanks michaelk

If it works as a root user, I don't want to change.