At the command prompt, type fdisk device_file and press Enter, where device_file is the device file for your first hard disk (/dev/sda if you have a SCSI or SATA hard disk, or /dev/hda if you have a PATA hard disk). At the fdisk prompt, type m and press Enter to view the various fdisk commands. 3. At the fdisk prompt, type p and press Enter to view the partition table on your hard disk. Which three partitions are present? When were they created? What are their types? 4. At the fdisk prompt, type n and press Enter to create a new partition. Next, type e to select a primary partition and press Enter. When prompted for the start sector, observe the valid range within the brackets and press Enter to select the default (the first available sector). When prompted for the end cylinder, observe the valid range within the brackets and press Enter to select the default (the last available sector). 5. At the fdisk prompt, type p and press Enter to view the partition table on your hard disk. How many partitions are present? What type of partition is /dev/hda4 or /dev/ sda4? 6. At the fdisk prompt, type n and press Enter to create a new partition. Note that logical drive is automatically selected as the partition type since all available primary partitions have been used and there is already an extended partition. When prompted for the start sector, observe the valid range within the brackets and press Enter to select the default (the first available sector). When prompted for the end cylinder, type +1GB and press Enter. 7. At the fdisk prompt, type p and press Enter to view the partition table on your hard disk. How many partitions are present? What type of partition is /dev/hda5 or /dev/ sda5? 8. At the fdisk prompt, type l and press Enter to view the different partition types. What type is used for Linux swap? Which character would you type at the fdisk prompt to change the type of partition? 9. At the fdisk prompt, type w and press Enter to save the changes to the hard disk and exit the fdisk utility. 10. At the command prompt, type reboot and press Enter to reboot your machine and ensure that the partition table was read into memory correctly. After your Linux system has been loaded, switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the terminal using the user name of root and the password of LNXrocks!. 11. At the command prompt, type mkfs t ext4 device_file and press Enter, where device_file is the device file for the first logical drive on your first hard disk (/dev/ sda5 if you have a SCSI or SATA hard disk, or /dev/hda5 if you have a PATA hard disk). 12. At the command prompt, type mkdir /newmount and press Enter to create a mount point directory underneath the / directory for mounting the third partition on your first hard disk. 13. At the command prompt, type mount t ext4 device_file /newmount and press Enter, where device_file is the device file for the first logical drive on your first hard disk (/dev/sda5 if you have a SCSI or SATA hard disk, or /dev/hda5 if you have a 248 Chapter 5 Linux Filesystem Administration Copyright 2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. PATA hard disk). This will mount the filesystem on your first logical drive in the extended partition to the /newmount directory. Next, type the mount command and press Enter to verify that the filesystem was mounted correctly. 14. At the command prompt, type ls F /newmount and press Enter. Is the lost+found directory present? Next, type cp /etc/hosts /newmount at the command prompt and press Enter to copy the hosts file to the new partition. Verify that the copy was successful by typing the ls F /newmount command at the command prompt again, and press Enter. 15. At the command prompt, type umount /newmount and press Enter. Next, type the mount command and press Enter to verify that the filesystem was unmounted correctly. 16. At the command prompt, type vi /etc/fstab and press Enter. Observe the contents of the file. Add a line to the bottom of the file as shown below, where device_file is the device file for the first logical drive on your first hard disk (/dev/sda5 if you have a SCSI or SATA hard disk, or /dev/hda5 if you have a PATA hard disk). device_file /newmount ext4 defaults 0 0 17. Save your changes and quit the vi editor. 18. At the command prompt, type reboot and press Enter. After your Linux system has been loaded, switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the terminal using the user name of root and the password of LNXrocks!. 19. At the command prompt, type mount and press Enter. Is the third partition on your hard disk mounted? Why? 20. At the command prompt, type umount /newmount and press Enter. Next, type the mount command to verify that the filesystem was unmounted correctly. 21. At the command prompt, type mount -a and press Enter. Next, type the mount command and press Enter. Is the third partition on your hard disk mounted? Why? 22. Type exit and press Enter to log out of your shell.