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{{Admon/caution | Important/warning! | The following operation will erase the contents of your hard disk. If you have any useful data stored on your disk, you must back it up first or use another hard disk that does not contain useful data on it. Do not plan on sharing the hard disk with the Windows course! You will be doing lots of tasks that may cause you to lose your data.}}
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<li value="4"> Enter the command <code>fdisk /dev/sda </code> to start the hard disk partition program.</li>
<li>At the fdisk command prompt, enter the letter '''p''' to print out the current partition table of the hard disk. If there are any partitions, use the '''d''' option to delete all of them, starting with the highest partition number first.</li>
<li>At the fdisk command prompt, use the '''n''' and '''t''' commands to create these three partitions:</li>
/dev/sda2 - the rest of the hard disk (extended)
/dev/sda5 - 300MB (logical, Linux Native)
<ol> <li value="7">* Use the '''p''' option the display the new partition and record it in your log book.</li>* <li>Remember to use the '''w''' option to write the new partitions information instead of the '''q''' option to quit without saving.</li>* <li>Enter the command <code>fdisk -l /dev/sda</code> again, and view the partition table to confirm that the partitions were properly created.</li>* <li>Exit the fdisk prompt.</li>* <li>Logout and restart Fedora.</li></ol>
Answer the Investigation 1 question in your lab log book.