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Re: blkid command missing?



* On 2020 02 Apr 07:48 -0500, 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.

As /usr/sbin is not in your user's $PATH by default, it is in root's
$PATH.  You can use either sudo blkid or su to root to run such programs.

- Nate

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