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| What do you call the file by which most devices on a Linux system are represented? Where are these files found? |
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-Device file
-/dev directory |
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| By default, does Fedora 13 load the floppy driver and create the device file? |
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| What command is used to manually load the floppy driver? |
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-mod probe floppy
-You must be logged in as the root user. |
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| What does the "c" or "b" character located at the beginning of the output of the ls -l command for a device file indicate? |
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| What are the major and minor numbers of a device? |
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-The major number of a device file points to the device driver for the device in the Linux kernel.
-The minor number indicates the particular device itself. |
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| What will be the device files for the first primary partition on the first and second hard disk drives? |
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| What will the device files be for the first primary partition on the first SATA hard drive? |
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| What will the device files be for the first loopback interface? |
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| What will the device files be for USB device files? |
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| What command can be used to recreate a device file if you know the type, major number, and minor number? |
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| What command is used to recreate a device file if you do not know the type, major number, or minor number of the device? |
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| What file contains a list of devices that are currently used on the system and their major numbers? |
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| All fileystems have three common components. What are they? |
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-Superblock
-Inode table
-Data blocks |
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| True or False? Files and directories appear the same throughout the directory tree regardless of whether there is one filesystem or 20 different filesystems in use by the Linux system. |
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| The traditional filesystem used on Linux. |
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| A variation on ext2 that allows for journaling. |
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| A variation on ext3 that has larger filesystem support and speed enhancements. |
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| A Microsoft propietary filesystem. |
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| FAT filesystem - The filesystem used on DOS and Window computers. |
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| A journalizing filesystem similar to ext3. |
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| Virtual FAT filesystem - A filesystem used by DOS and Windows computers. |
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| To what does the term "mounting" refer? |
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| The process where by a device is made accessible to users via the logical directory tree.(Making data available) |
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| The device that is attached to a certain directory on the directory tree. |
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| What happens to any content resident in a directory that is acting as a mount point when a device is mounted? |
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| The mount point directory is temporarily covered up by that device while the device remains mounted. |
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| What happens to any content resident in a directory that is acting as a mount point when a device is unmounted? |
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| The mount point directory is uncovered, and the previous file contents are revealed. |
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| What directory in the FHS is and empty directory that is commonly used as a temporary mount point for mounting removable media devices? |
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| Can any existing directory be used as a mount point? |
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| What is safe practice for mounting devices to avoid making existing files inaccessible to user? |
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| Include the command unmount. |
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| Where should you create mount point directories for removable media that may be connected to your PC for long periods of time? |
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| create subdirectories under the /media directory. |
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| What commands are used to mount and unmount devices to and from the mount point directories? |
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| mount and unmount command |
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| What command is used to format a disk drive with a filesystem? |
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| If you do not specify the filesystem using the mkfs command, the default filesystem is assumed? |
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| What command is used to check whether the /media/floppy directory is being used by any users? |
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| What does the /etc/fstab filke do? |
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| Saves time typing on the command line, you can alternatively specify one argument and allow the system to look up the remaining info in the /etc/fstab file(filesystem table). |
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| What fields does the /etc/fstab file have? |
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-device mount
-mount point
-type
-mount options
-dump #
-fsck # |
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| What command is used to mount all filesystems in the /etc/fstab file that are intended to mount at boot time? |
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| What are four standard PATA hard drive configurations? |
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-Primary master(/dev/hda)
-Primary slave(/dev/hdb)
-Secondary master(/dev/hdc)
-Secondary slave(/dev/hdd) |
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| What are the symbolic links within the /dev directory that Linux creates to make the identification of your CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, or DVD-RW drive easier? |
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-/dev/cdrom
-/dev/cdrw
-/dev/dvd
-/dev/dvdrw |
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| What is the filesystem type used by CDs and DVDs? |
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| Why can't CDs and DVDs be ejected from the drive until they are properly unmounted? |
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| The mount command locks the CD or DVD drive as a precaution. |
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| What happens when you insert a CD or DVD while in a GUI environment? |
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| It is automatically mounted by the system to a directory underneath the /media directory. |
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| Can ISO images be mounted and accessed by your Linux system? |
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| Linux requires two partitions at minimum. What are they? |
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-Partition that is mounted to the root directory.
-Partition used to hold virtual memory(swap partition) |
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| Why is good practice to use more than just two partitions on a Linux system? |
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-Segregate different types of data
-More than one type of filesystem
-Reduce filesystem corruption
-Speed up access to stored data |
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| Where are partition records stored on the hard disk? |
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They are stored in the first readable sector on the hard disk.
-MBR
-MBB |
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| What do hard disks larger than 2TB use in place of the MBR? |
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| GPT(GUID partition table) |
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| What command is used to create partitions after installation? |
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| What is the most reliable way to ensure that the MBR or GPT is reloaded into memory? |
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| What command displays the interactive graphical utility used to quickly create, manipulate, and delete partitions? |
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| What commands are used to prepare a swap partition, and activate it? |
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-mkswap command(prepares)
-swapon command(activates) |
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| What command is used to deactivate a swap partition? |
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| Why is using volumes to host filesystems more flexible than using standard partitions? |
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| Select free space from unused partitions acrosss multiple hard disks in your computer. |
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| What are the components of LVM? |
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-Physical volumes
-Volume group
-Logical volumes |
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| How do users perceive the physical location where data is stored when using LVM? |
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| The physical location of the data is transparent to the user. |
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| What is the command used to create a physical volume using LVM? |
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| What command is used to display detailed information about each PV? |
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| What command is used to create a VG that uses the space in the PV? |
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| How do you create a VG that uses multiple PVs? |
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| Simply add multiple device arguments to the vgcreate command. |
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| What is the physical extent(PE)size of a VG? |
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| When creating a VG, it is important to choose the block size for saving data because it cannot be safely changed later. |
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| What command can be used to display detailed information about each VG? |
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| What command is used to create LVs from the available space in your VG? |
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| What command is used to display detailed information about each LV? |
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| What three other commands can display information about PVs, VGs, and LVs that are configured on your system? |
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| What command is used to add another PV? |
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| What command is used to add a new PV to your existing VG? |
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| What commanf is used to increase the size of your LVs to use the additional space provided by an extended VG? |
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| Why is understanding the device names and mount point directories used by the devices themselves often irrelevant? |
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| Because it is common to work with removable media devices with in a GUI environment. |
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| How do you determine what device file is used when a removable media device is plugged in? |
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| When disk space falls below what percentage will you find that the system might suffer from poorer performance or cease to operate? |
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| What command can be usef to monitor free space? |
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| What command will allow you view disk spaces in a more user-friendly format? |
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| What command is used to view the size of the directory and its contents in Kilobytes? |
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| What command is used to view only a summary of the total size of a directory? |
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| What causes the most common filesystem corruption? |
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| System was not shutdown properly. |
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| What is the term used to descibe the process of saving data to the hard disk after it has been temporarily stored in memory? |
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| What command is used to check the filesystem for errors? What switch will cause a full check run? |
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fsckcommand
fsck -f option command |
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| What command can be used to perform the same function as the e2fsck command with the -c option? |
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| What two types of hard disk quota limits are available? |
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| The are hard disk quotas that the user can exceed for a certain period of time. |
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| They are rigid quotas that the user cannot exceed. |
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| How are quotas turned on and off? |
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| How can a user view his or her own quota? |
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