fdisk not found
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Mar 26 01:58:57 UTC 2004
Jean Calixte wrote:
>Hi all. Whenever I try to run fdisk on my computer, I get an error
>stating that
>the command couldn't be found. What package do I install from the CD in
>order
>to get this problem fixed, or do I need to edit my PATH? Any info would
>help.
>
>Thanks
>
>
On my machine fdisk is
$ which fdisk
/sbin/fdisk
it has to be run as root, and the default path for root includes /sbin.
Did you do "su -" or "su"? using "su -" sets your environment to be root, using "su" leaves it as your regular user, thus your own PATH.
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