Thanks all, After running updatedb a second time it got rid of the strange dir. Now I can fdisk using /sbib/fdisk. Clyton Stapleton On Monday 04 November 2002 08:00 pm, Bill Jonas wrote: > You might try specifying the full path to fdisk, e.g. "/sbin/fdisk", in > that command line. > > It sounds to me as though the possibility exists that the installation > is somewhat borked. Out of curiosity, might the disk be old and > failing? You might try running badblocks(8) on it. (If you need a > path, it should be in /sbin.)