01-17-2002
Sorry, I have to ask: did you do it as root?
fdisk should reside in /sbin, if I recall correctly...
If not, you can get it from the redhat site. Here is a list of all the files provided by the package containing fdisk:
http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/util-...2.i386_fl.html
(I believe this is only for ext2, so if you have another filesystem in use, I'm out of ideas). If you can, use the util-linux package on your install disks.
I haven't used rpm in a while, so I don't remember if you can just extract the file you want, as opposed to reinstalling a large portion of your important utilities...
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switch_root
SWITCH_ROOT(8) System Administration SWITCH_ROOT(8)
NAME
switch_root - switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree
SYNOPSIS
switch_root [-hV]
switch_root newroot init [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev, /sys and /run to newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init process.
WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
RETURN VALUE
switch_root returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
NOTES
switch_root will fail to function if newroot is not the root of a mount. If you want to switch root into a directory that does not meet
this requirement then you can first use a bind-mounting trick to turn any directory into a mount point:
mount --bind $DIR $DIR
SEE ALSO
chroot(2), init(8), mkinitrd(8), mount(8)
AUTHORS
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
AVAILABILITY
The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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