02-17-2012
if fdisk has following permission
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99400 2010-03-22 10:57 fdisk
Then you should be able to run this. try
/sbin/fdisk -h
you should be able to get the help page.
Now coming to the point where we talk about what fdisk does. fdisk is the command to manipulate the disk partition which other user can not, only root has access to do this.
summary..
you can run the fdisk command as other user but can not perform the disk operation using the command.
I hope i clear you doubt.
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cmdk(7D) Devices cmdk(7D)
NAME
cmdk - common disk driver
SYNOPSIS
cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]
DESCRIPTION
The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable
disks.
The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written without regard to physical disk
records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin-
gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit-
ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk.
I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL
error.
Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the
entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.
Fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.
FILES
/dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n block device (IDE)
/dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n raw device (IDE)
where:
cn controller n
dn lun n (0-7)
sn UNIX system slice n (0-15)
pn fdisk partition(0)
/kernel/drv/cmdk 32-bit kernel module.
/kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk 64-bit kernel module.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I)
SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 2004 cmdk(7D)