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Re: blkid command missing?



On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 08:47:15PM +0800, kaye n wrote:
>    Hello Friends!
>    kaye@laptop:~$ blkid
>    bash: blkid: command not found
>    kaye@laptop:~$ whereis blkid
>    blkid: /usr/sbin/blkid /usr/share/man/man8/blkid.8.gz
                 ^^^^

>    As you can see, blkid is present in a couple of directories but I cannot
>    run it.
>    Thank you for your time!

Being that it is located in /usr/sbin and that on most systems /usr/sbin
is not in the PATH of unprivileged users, you should either add
/usr/sbin to your PATH or (more properly) use sudo or become root to run
blkid.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez


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