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

[Jay Mistry]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Heike C. Zimmerer <nospam08q2 at gmx.net>wrote:

> 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
>

Running sudo /sbin/fdisk -l gave the HD & partition output. (On Fedora 10, I
do not have to su - to root, just fdisk -l as normal user gives the proper
output).

The result of "sudo /sbin/fdisk -l" is at http://pastebin.com/f37fea47d

Jay
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