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I use Fedora, and dealt with the same thing, as I hated to praface some of the commands with the /sbin/

I think I added an echo statement to append /sbin/ to my current $PATH in a script for my user login. It was long ago, and I don't recall which one, exactly.

As for a "Linux Device Manager", are you asking about a Gnome Device Manager? A KDE Device Manager? The "Linux" ones (closest to the kernel) are all command line. The KDE and Gnome equivalents just make the same call, and put it into a GUI.

EDIT: Cenelerra looks very GUI-ish from what I saw on their website. But I do know that some tools (I have used dvgrab to capture the firewire video stream from my digital video camera in the past) are commandline. I don't need a GUI to capture a video stream, after all.

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I found the GUI for it... oops...

GNOME is what I'm using for anyone with suggestiong to device manager.

Anyone know how to add things to the path directory?

Where is the "program files" directory? Is it /usr/bin/ ?

How about disk degragmenting?

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I think you can add that line to your .bashrc file in your home directory.

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[root@xxx home]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hda1 * 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hdb1 * 1 14589 117186111 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 1 12749 102406311 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2 12750 12762 104422+ 83 Linux

/dev/sda3 12763 18079 42708802+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdc1 1 48641 390708801 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdd1 1 48641 390708801 7 HPFS/NTFS

Those are all my drives... the 400gb's don't allow me access.

And is there anyway to give myself access to all system functions so I don't have to enter root password all the time? Or is it just better to keep it that way?

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sdd has one partition, sdd1, that is NTFS

Should allow access fine. Can you mount and access sdc1?

Can you post the mount command used, and the error(s) it may post.

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