[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting a floppy with ext3, also using Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4) with Smoothwall

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Tue Oct 7 15:01:07 CDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 14:54, terry wrote:
> Wayne Dahl wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, any ideas why my RH8 box couldn't seem to find mkfs or mke2fs from
> > a bash shell, even though they're both located in /sbin?

/sbin is not in user's path by default.

> > 
> 
> try:
> /sbin/mke2fs
> 
> If that works then
> PATH=$PATH: /sbin
> 

No space.  That 'can' break some things.

> should make
> mk2fs /dev/x
> work

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