Access to Linux (ext3) & Windows (FAT32) partitions (from Ubuntu 9.04)

Heike C. Zimmerer nospam08q2 at gmx.net
Mon Aug 10 13:30:09 UTC 2009


Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com> writes:

> AFAIK 'fdisk' should be part of the default bash shell commands. I alos
> tried looking into the Package Manager for fdisk related packages &
> installed them. But this also doesnt work.

fdisk is part of the base installation.  It has nothing to do with bash
except the usual place to run it is in a terminal and from a bash
prompt.

fdisk is located in /sbin.  Since /sbin is usually not in a user's
$PATH, this means you have to run it as root (e.g., from sudo) or
explicitly call it as /sbin/fdisk, or include /sbin into your $PATH.

Heike





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