I'm trying to work with some of my partitions so I used the fdisk command and heres what I got.

[aggiedvm@localhost ~]$ su fdisk
su: user fdisk does not exist
[aggiedvm@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost aggiedvm]# fdisk
bash: fdisk: command not found
[root@localhost aggiedvm]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found

Does anyone haave an explanation why it would do that?? or a way to fix it?

Hello aggiedvm

Your command 'su' is trying to use 'fdisk' as a modifier or switch and it is not applicable to the su command.

Try issuing su first and you will be asked for your root password.

Then run the fdisk command.

You will also need to be aware of the variants of su.

Simply issuing the command:

su

will give you roots editing rights without giving you access to the whole of roots environment like the access to various folders contained in the path statement. To gain the ability to run the fdisk command you will need to use the:

su -

variant of the command. That's a space and minus sign after the su.

Use "su -" instead of "su".
Or run it as /sbin/fdisk - this is probably a path issue.

Thanks, that worked.

Aggiedvm