Basic Linux Tasks

Question 1

What is Swap Space?

Answer 1

Swap space is to substitute disk space for RAM memory when physical RAM fills up and more space is needed.

Question 2

What is Total Memory in Linux?

Answer 2

Physical RAM + swap space and is referred to as virtual memory

Question 3

When installing Linux, what happens if your hard disk is greater than 50g?

Answer 3

A /home partition is created, otherwise it is combined with the /root partition.

Question 4

What is the flag for man to find all entires that match your query?

Answer 4

-a

Question 5

What is the flag for man to display debugging information?

Answer 5

-D

Question 6

What is the flag for man to show command descriptions?

Answer 6

-f

Question 7

What is the flag for man to display help options?

Answer 7

-h

Question 8

What is the flag for man to show lists of all manual pages?

Answer 8

-k

Question 9

What is the flag for man to search for the specific string?

Answer 9

-K

Question 10

What is the flag for man to format the man pages so they can be printed out?

Answer 10

-t

Question 11

Which command is used to search the name section of all man pages?

Answer 11

Apropos

Question 12

Which command is used to display a brief description of a command?

Answer 12

Whatis

Question 13

Which command is used to display the information page of a command?

Answer 13

info

Question 14

How do you get help on using the man command?

Answer 14

man -h
man –help

Question 15

Which directory contains all of the documentation files for the libraries, system utilities and other software packages that are installed on your particular Linux system?

Answer 15

/usr/share/doc