Why "fdisk -l" does not give any output in terminal?

Question

When I do fdisk -l in terminal there is no output? What can be the probable reason? How to fix it?

These thing happen when you switch from RHEL to ubuntu. So obvious. Thanks. — Chirag, Aug 13 '12 at 17:36

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:35

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Because fdisk is a menu-driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables. Therefore it requires sudoers or root access

try using

sudo fdisk -l.

answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:35

atenz

It is so tedious to do sudo for simple tasks. Anyway that was obvious. I used RHEL earlier and things were straight forward. – Chirag Aug 13 '12 at 17:39
Maybe RHEL follows the footsteps only to be controlled by admins , here it avails everyone to do changes ( Ubuntu - Linux for Human beings + Admins too) :P – atenz Aug 13 '12 at 17:41
\m/ absolutely agree :) – Chirag Aug 13 '12 at 17:44

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:34

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You need to prefix the command with sudo, then enter your password.

sudo fdisk -l

answered Aug 13 '12 at 17:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '14 at 15:20

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You need to do a sudo fdisk -l or first sudo su then fdisk -l.

answered Mar 08 '14 at 15:20

user3185936

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