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| - | ==Partitioning==
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| - | You could pretty much follow this guide keystroke for keystroke to do it. It is suggested that you read the man pages for fdisk & read up on it, as well.
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| - | ===Primary Partitions===
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| - | $ fdisk /dev/'''sda'''
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| - | Command (m for help): '''n'''
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| - | Command action
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| - | e extended
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| - | p primary partition (1-4)
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| - | '''p'''
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| - | Partition number (1-4): '''1'''
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| - | First cylinder (1-30401, default 1): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1
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| - | Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-30401, default 30401): '''+100MB'''
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| - | Command (m for help): '''n'''
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| - | Command action
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| - | e extended
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| - | p primary partition (1-4)
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| - | '''p'''
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| - | Partition number (1-4): '''2'''
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| - | First cylinder (124-30401, default 124): '''<enter>''' Using default value 124
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| - | Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (124-30401, default 30401): '''+10GB'''
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| - | ===Extended Partitions===
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| - | Command (m for help): '''n'''
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| - | Command action
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| - | e extended
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| - | p primary partition (1-4)
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| - | '''e'''
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| - | Partition number (1-4): '''4'''
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| - | First cylinder (1341-30401, default 1341): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1341
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| - | Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1341-30401, default 30401): '''<enter>''' Using default value 30401
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| - | Command (m for help): '''n'''
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| - | Command action
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| - | l logical (5 or over)
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| - | p primary partition (1-4)
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| - | '''l'''
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| - | First cylinder (1341-30401, default 1341): Using default value 1341
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| - | Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1341-30401, default 30401): '''+512MB'''
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| - | Command (m for help): '''n'''
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| - | Command action
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| - | l logical (5 or over)
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| - | p primary partition (1-4)
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| - | '''l'''
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| - | First cylinder (1404-30401, default 1404): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1404
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| - | Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1404-30401, default 30401): '''<enter>''' Using default value 30401
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| - | ===Change sda5 to Swap===
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| - | The default type of partition is Ext3 (83), so we only need to change the type on partition 5, to Swap (82).
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| - | Command (m for help): '''t'''
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| - | Partition number (1-7): '''5'''
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| - | Hex code (type L to list codes): '''82'''
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| - | Changed system type of partition 5 to 82 (Linux swap)
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| - | ===Print the partition map to see that it is what we want===
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| - | Command (m for help): '''p'''
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| - | Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
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| - | 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
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| - | Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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| - | Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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| - | /dev/sda1 1 123 987966 83 Linux
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| - | /dev/sda2 124 1340 9775552+ 83 Linux
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| - | /dev/sda4 1341 30401 233432482+ 5 Extended
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| - | /dev/sda5 1341 1403 506016 82 Linux swap
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| - | /dev/sda6 1404 30401 223150851 83 Linux
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| - | ===Write the partitions to the hard drive===
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| - | Command (m for help): '''w'''
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| - | The partition table has been altered!
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| - | Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table
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| - | $
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