Windows – Can’t run fdisk on Cygwin when it is installed

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I can't run fdisk on Cygwin, either outside or inside of the directory that contains it, despite confirming that:

  • fdisk.exe exists inside of /sbin, via both the command line and Windows Explorer

  • C:\cygwin64;, C:\cygwin64\sbin; and C:\cygwin64\bin; are set in the PATH environment variable

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Running which fdisk returns a "no fdisk in [PATH]" error, where [PATH] is the contents of my PATH environment variable.

What's going on here?

Best Answer

*NIX works differently than Windows.

You will need to type out the full path /sbin/fdisk

Or, while in the /sbin directory you need to type ./fdisk

Here is how you can learn about and modify the *NIX $path environment variable.

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