No, I think the problem is you have to run it as root (at least on my 
system).
/sbin/fdisk -l
as root prints out all the partition tables (if, say, you have hde and hdf 
instead of hda, like me). Don't try the scary stuff recommended below :-)

  ~ ross

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Phillip Hellewell wrote:

> > I tried to " fdisk -l /dev/hda" in a linux terminal, and was told that it 
> > was  an invaild command line? I couldn't figure out how I partitioned the 
> > hard drive.
> > 
> > What else can I do?
> 
> That's weird.  What version of fdisk do you have anyways? "fdisk -v"
> The "df" command might help a little bit.
> What about if you just run "fdisk /dev/hda", then when inside the
> program type p<enter>.  Then type q<enter>.  Don't try anything else
> unless you know what you're doing.
> 
> 

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