mke2fs problem

cuco76 · 11-22-2003, 03:07 PM

Hello,

I am running fedora 1. I created a partition with cfdisk but when i run "mke2fs /dev/sda4", I get a bash error. I am assuming that this means I do not have mke2fs. I tried a locate and it was nowhere to be found. How do I get this?

Thanks in advance!

quatsch · 11-22-2003, 03:19 PM

what is the *exact* bash error?

cuco76 · 11-22-2003, 03:20 PM

[root@fedora /]# mke2fs /dev/sda4
bash: mke2fs: command not found
[root@fedora /]#

acid_kewpie · 11-22-2003, 03:22 PM

pretty self explanatory really.... mke2fs normally lives in /sbin...

and PLEASE use correct forums, this is clearly nothing to do with the LFS distribution...

trickykid · 11-22-2003, 03:46 PM

Moved: Not LFS related. Moved to our Fedora forum. Yes, we have a Fedora forum.

cuco76 · 11-22-2003, 03:49 PM

Hello!

I am assuming this is lfs related becaues I am following the lfs 5.0 guide for creating your own linux from scratch. If this is not the case please let me know.

quatsch · 11-22-2003, 04:02 PM

try
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/sda4

cuco76 · 11-22-2003, 04:10 PM

Thanks that worked!

acid_kewpie · 11-22-2003, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cuco76
Hello!

I am assuming this is lfs related becaues I am following the lfs 5.0 guide for creating your own linux from scratch. If this is not the case please let me know.

well you never *SAID* you were doing LFS 5... we just got as far as Fedora.... we're not psychic!

finegan · 11-22-2003, 06:06 PM

Fedora, and RedHat before it have profiling built now so that when you su to root you keep joe user's path, so /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in your path. In order to su and get root's full path (and avoid annoying hastles like the above), "su -"

Cheers,

Finegan