Chapter 1

Question 1

Use the output from the following command to answer the next question.

[root@station root]$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
ng use aveq

   8     0    8891650 sda
   8     1     136521 sda1
   8     2    3502170 sda2
   8     3    2096482 sda3 
   8     4          1 sda4
   8     5    2096451 sda5

Answer 1

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Question 2

Which of the following best explains why the partition sda4 is listed in /proc/partitions with only a size of 1?

Answer 2

The partition is being used as the extended partition, and therefore is not accessed directly.

Question 3

Which of the following partitions could be an extended partition?

Answer 3

/dev/sdb4

Question 4

Which of the following would be a logical partition?

Answer 4

/dev/sda5

Question 5

Which of the following commands would list all known partitions?

Answer 5

fdisk -cul

Question 6

Which of the following commands could be used to add the partition /dev/sda8?

Answer 6

None of the above

Question 7

Use the following transcript to answer the next 3 questions.

[root@station root]$ fdisk -cul /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders, total 20971520 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2f2333e8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 206848 16984063 8388608 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 16984064 18032639 524288 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 18032640 20129791 1048576 83 Linux

Answer 7

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Question 8

Assuming that the system Id’s indicate the true use of the partitions, approximately how much partition space is allocated to swap space?

Answer 8

520 megabytes

Question 9

Approximately how much space is left unallocated on the drive /dev/sdb?

Answer 9

420 megabytes

Question 10

The administrator wants to use the space is left unallocated on the drive /dev/sdb. What options are avaialble?

Answer 10

The remaining space is not available for use

Question 11

After editing the partition table with fdisk, what action must (usually) be taken for the kernel to recognize the new partitions?

Answer 11

The machine must be rebooted OR The partprobe command should be run

A or C

Question 12

Which of the following fdisk commands is used to abandon all changes?

Answer 12

q