Review Questions for Test 1

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