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fdisk and mkfs not on my system?

Chad Self

fdisk and mkfs not on my system?
« on: November 15, 2002, 05:00:52 AM »
I'm running a 5.1.2 server and just added a second scsi disk to the system.  Since this one was much bigger than my first drive ( 70G vs 20G) I'm hoping to mount it to /home/e-smith/files/ibays.

I've got the disk in, but I can't use the fdisk or mkfs commands. I get the following errors:
using fdisk:
   [root@xxservernamexx /]# fdisk /dev/sda3
   bash: fdisk: command not found

and when I try to use mkfs:
   [root@xxservernamexx /]# mkfs -ext2 /dev/sda3
   bash: mkfs: command not found

I downloaded the util-linux-2.11r-10.i386.rpm from RedHat (it contains the fdisk command according to my search on "fdisk" at RedHat.com) but it conflicted with newer packages.

I ran into this kind of thing before in v4.x.x -- I didn't have 'make'-- but it was an easy RPM fix.  

Is there a package or blade that includes such necessary but dangerous commans for the SME distro?  

Thanks,
Chad

What's the deal?

Chad Self

Re: fdisk and mkfs not on my system?
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2002, 08:03:58 AM »
Sorry for the brain fade.
The commands  I needed were in /sbin/ which apparently isn't included in root's command path. I'll be fixing that later.

Chad