No fdisk recognition

[steve1961]

For some reason I get a no such command error when trying to use fdisk to view my partitions - e.g. fdisk -l. I've checked that the util-linux package is installed and it is, When I try to do a reinstallation I just get a 'nothing to do response'. Any ideas?

[jim]

Who is this root person?

Root is the administrator of your linux Operating System . He/she (for the linux ladies )
can do everything and anything to the system. Root installs and removes packages, updates your system
as well as edit files and many other things. You shouldn't run as root E.G. log in as root.
Security is a high priority in linux and you don't want to kill your system if you make a mistake.
So please don't log in as root.

So how does one padiwan become root in time of need?

~ to run any system specific application you'll need root password
~ in the terminal you can type
su ( to become root in Root's PATH)
su - ( to become root in Your PATH & /sbin ) notice the space and dash

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

Now to tickle your brain...
http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/pages/setupsudo.html

[steve1961]

I was running the command as root. However, i've never needed to put the /sbin path in front of the command before. It now works. Thanks for the help.

By the way, I've just moved to fedora after running ubuntu and that uses sudo as default. Thanks for the link to set it up.

[CrystalCowboy]

Originally Posted by steve1961

I was running the command as root. However, i've never needed to put the /sbin path in front of the command before. It now works. Thanks for the help.

By the way, I've just moved to fedora after running ubuntu and that uses sudo as default. Thanks for the link to set it up.

You have a list of directories called you PATH that are searched for executable programs. Apparently /sbin used to be in your PATH but isn't under the new OS install. You can check your default PATH with
$ echo $PATH
You can change your default path in your startup scripts (e.g. .cshrc), specific syntax will depend on which shell you are using. I use tcsh, so in ~/.cshrc I have lines like this:
set path = (/sbin $path)

[steve1961]

Thanks for this, that explains it.