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I am using Mac OS X 10.6.4 and am struggling with the command:
diskutil
Whenever I type in diskutil the terminal says:
-bash: diskutil: command not found
Does anyone know what the problem might be? Can I install the diskutil script (probably by copying some *.sh to some destination and adding something to the bash.profile)?
Maccaius
Posted 2010-11-20T13:01:25.573
Reputation: 61
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Use:
/usr/sbin/diskutil
instead of just:
diskutil
Maccaius
Posted 2010-11-20T13:01:25.573
Reputation: 61
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diskutil is a system administrator command. That's why it's not in the default search path for ordinary users.
The usual way to run it is to run sudo diskutil. The sudo command runs a command as the system administrator (root). sudo searches for the command in a different search path (it sets the PATH environment variable to a diffent value before searching for the command name), which includes /usr/sbin where system administrator commands such as diskutil reside.
If you do want to run diskutil as your ordinary user, specify the full path: /usr/sbin/diskutil.
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Posted 2010-11-20T13:01:25.573
Reputation: 58 319
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Check your PATH (echo $PATH). diskutil is in /usr/sbin. Add it to your path if it isn't already there. If it is, then yes, diskutil is missing. (/usr/sbin/diskutil is an executable itself, not a shell script.)
JRobert
Posted 2010-11-20T13:01:25.573
Reputation: 6 128
could you tell me then line to add to the bash.profile in order to include /sbin/ ? – Maccaius – 2010-11-20T13:29:23.977
/usr/sbin doesn't belong in your ordinary users path, see Giles' answer. – Sven – 2010-11-20T13:48:17.903
While this is almost true, there are a few things you can do as a non-root user, list partitions, view the information on a mount point, etc. Basically the same stuff you can do inside of Disk Utility without unlocking it. Anything that actually presents a risk to data on disk will require root privs. – peelman – 2010-11-20T16:14:29.077
1Actually, this answer is wrong on a couple of counts: first, OS X keeps sudo is in /usr/bin, not sbin; second, /sbin and /usr/sbin are in the default PATH for standard users as well as admins. – Gordon Davisson – 2010-11-20T17:18:53.630
OSX Mavericks, and /usr/sbin/diskutil isn't there. – OrangeDog – 2014-03-12T11:02:33.393
@OrangeDog Oh, do you know where it is? I don't have access to any OSX machine. Is
diskutilon the default path? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2014-03-12T11:55:48.987@GordonDavisson This answer claims nothing about where
sudois. Evidently/usr/sbin(which is wherediskutilwas in OSX at the time) wasn't in Maccaius's PATH; was/usr/sbinin the default PATH in 10.6.4? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2014-03-12T11:58:13.150I don't have a 10.6.4 system handy, but under both 10.6.8 and 10.9.2, the default PATH is
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin,diskutilis in/usr/sbin, andsudois in/usr/bin. So, bothsudoanddiskutilhave been in the default PATH for a long time and are still there. Not sure whydiskutilis missing on @OrangeDog's Mac... – Gordon Davisson – 2014-03-12T16:06:51.267