Review Questions for Test 1

1. What command will list all partitions on all hard drives?

• fdisk
• fdisk -l
• partprobe
• FDISK

2. 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

3. Which directory usually contains the GNU/Linux boot files?

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

4. The user password are stored in which file?

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Linux need at least two minimum partitions for installation named

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

9. File system must requires a container. The container may be

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