Review Questions for Test 1

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What command will list all partitions on all hard drives?

  • fdisk
  • fdisk -l
  • partprobe
  • FDISK

what is wrong with this statement?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/mytest.img bs-1024 count-10000

  • wrong of file type
  • cannot have zeroes in an img file
  • typing error
  • if and of in the wrong order

Which directory usually contains the GNU/Linux boot files?

  • /
  • /root
  • /boot
  • /home directory of user who is booting the system

The user password are stored in which file?

  • /etc/passwd
  • /etc/shadow
  • /etc/password
  • none of above

Grub is a boot loader. It is used to load Linux kernel & driver module files in to memory by reading the configuration file. The name and path of GRUB configuration file is

  • /etc/grub/grub.conf
  • /root/grub.conf
  • /boot/grub/grub.conf
  • /boot/grub.conf

resize2fs command is used ?

  • to enlarge or shrink the size of partitions on harddisks
  • to change the physical volumes (PVs)
  • to enlarge or shrink the size of Logical Volumes (LVM)
  • to enlarge or shrink the ext2 and ext3 file systems

The Name and path of the linux kernel is

  • /boot/vmlinux.2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
  • /boot/initrd.2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
  • /boot/Linus.torvalds.2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
  • /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686

Linux need at least two minimum partitions for installation named

  • /root & swap
  • /root & /boot
  • / & swap
  • /root & /red knot

File system must requires a container. The container may be

  • Disk Partition
  • File
  • Logical volume (LVM)
  • All of above

To mount a new file system permanently, so that it is available automatically across the rebooting,a entry is required to made in a file, The name of the file is

  • /etc/inittab
  • /etc/fstab
  • /boot/grub/grub.conf
  • /etc/automounttab

What is the purpose of the sudo command?

  • to allow a permitted user to execute ftp
  • to start the Suse linux kernel
  • to allow a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user
  • to switch to the root user

What command would you use to set the maximum mount count of the file system to 100?

  • tune2fs /dev/sda7 -c 100
  • tune2fs /dev/sda2 -m 100
  • resize2fs /dev/sda3 -c 100
  • resize2fs /dev/sda5 -m 100

There is one line "#chkconfig: 3 92 08" in your script file. Its name is carpal and it is saved in /etc/init.d/ directory. When you execute the command "chkconfig --add carpal", What will happen?

  • to produce links: "/etc/rc5.d/S92carpal" and "/etc/rc3.d/K08carpal"
  • to produce links: "/etc/rc5.d/S92carpal" and "/etc/rc0.d/K08carpal"
  • to produce links: "/etc/rc3.d/S92carpal" and "/etc/rc0.d/S08carpal"
  • to produce links: "/etc/rc3.d/S92carpal" and "/etc/rc0.d/K08carpal"

Different Linux uses different tools to install package. As follow which is true?

  • Ubuntu uses apt-get, Opensuse uses zypper and Fedora uses yum or pkcon
  • Ubuntu uses pkcon or zypper, Opensuse uses yum and Fedora apt-get
  • Ubuntu uses zypper, Opensuse uses apt-get and Fedora uses yum or pkcon
  • Ubuntu uses yum, Opensuse uses pkcon and Fedora uses yum or apt-get

How to unpack the file "linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2"?

  • tar cvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
  • tar xvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
  • tar tvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
  • gunzip linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2|tar cvf -

How to compile kernel and modules?

  • make oldconfig
  • make
  • rpmdev-setuptree
  • make modules_install

How to create initial ram disk image?

  • initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
  • initrd /initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
  • mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.26 -i initrd-2.6.26
  • mkinitrd (hd1,0)/initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img

What is a daemon?

  • Just a process to stop another program
  • A software process that runs in the background and provides the service to client upon request
  • A process that runs one time. Once done it will stop
  • A process that prevents multiple occurances from running at one time