[SOLVED] Trouble with fdisk - Trying to delete partition

[mrmojomike]

I'm trying to delete a partition, and maybe I just don't know what I'm doing (which I don't), but I can't get fdisk to work. I type this in:

[root@localhost ****]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
146G 4.2G 135G 3% /
/dev/sda1 190M 25M 156M 14% /boot
tmpfs 505M 48K 505M 1% /dev/shm

And then this:

[root@localhost ****]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@localhost ****]# fdisk /dev/sda1
bash: fdisk: command not found

It appears as though my fdisk isn't working for some reason. Anyone know why? Or what I should do? If anyone would like to give me step by step instructions on how to delete a partition that would be greatly appreciated.

[digerati]

Seems like you don't have /sbin in you PATH, try invoking the command with absolute path...

/sbin/fdisk -l

[mrmojomike]

I realize that I have to install fdisk. So I tried to and it had an error and told me to install Parted. So I tried doing that but it won't work. I do the ./configure, and when i do make it says this:

Making all in libparted
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/****/Desktop/parted-1.8.7/libparted'
Makefile:564: warning: overriding commands for target `linux.lo'
Makefile:557: warning: ignoring old commands for target `linux.lo'
Making all in labels
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/****/Desktop/parted-1.8.7/libparted/labels'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../lib -I../../include -g -O2 -Werror -MT rdb.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/rdb.Tpo -c -o rdb.lo rdb.c
mkdir .libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../lib -I../../include -g -O2 -Werror -MT rdb.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/rdb.Tpo -c rdb.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/rdb.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
../../include/parted/natmath.h:94: error: inline function 'ped_div_round_to_nearest' declared but never defined
../../include/parted/natmath.h:91: error: inline function 'ped_div_round_up' declared but never defined
make[2]: *** [rdb.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/****/Desktop/parted-1.8.7/libparted/labels'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/****/Desktop/parted-1.8.7/libparted'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


Now what am I supposed to do?

[Jonathan183]

are you sure fdisk is not already located at /sbin/fdisk ?

[mrmojomike]

I see it there but nothing happens when i type in:

/sbin/fdisk -l

[mrmojomike]

I navigate to the folder and when I type in anything with fdisk it says bash: fdisk: command not found

[rokytnji]

Try typing in cfdisk as root user and see what comes up maybe.

[Jonathan183]

what does ls /sbin/f* return ... usually current directory is not in root user path for security reasons.

[devils casper]

Which version of RedHat are you using? Execute this

cat /etc/redhat-release
cat /etc/*version*

Post output here.


Use - (hyphen) with su command.
Execute this

su -
fdisk -l

Post output here.

[digerati]

I see it there but nothing happens when i type in:

/sbin/fdisk -l

are you trying to find a disk with GUID Partition table... if so you cannot find the disk with fdisk. In such a case you have to go with more advanced tools like parted

invoke parted and use print command to see you can see the disks.