Module 5 Live Virtual Machine Labs 1-8

Question 1

lab 5-1

Which of the following command is used to navigate to the root directory?

Answer 1

cd /

Question 2

Which of the following sub-directories are part of the root directory? [Choose all that apply.]

Answer 2

boot
var
home
tmp
usr

Question 3

Which command will allow you to find out the total space taken by each of the directories in a Linux system?

Answer 3

du -h –max-depth=1

Question 4

Which type of partition moves items from the computer memory to its hard drive?

Answer 4

swap

Question 5

Which of the following command lists all the partitions and their mount points on a hard disk?

Answer 5

mount

Question 6

lab 5-2

What is the number of MBR partitions contained in a hard drive?

Answer 6

1

Question 7

What is the maximum number of primary and extended partitions can you define on a hard drive?

Answer 7

4

Question 8

Which command allows you to display the existing partitions on a disk?

Answer 8

fdisk -l

Question 9

When using the gdisk command, what is the default GUID used?

Answer 9

8300

Question 10

How many partitions does GPT allow you to create on a disk?

Answer 10

unlimited

Question 11

lab 5-3

Which of the following tasks can be performed using disk management tools in Linux? [Choose all that apply.]

Answer 11

Monitor free and used space

Remove partitions

Specifying the type of filesystem on a partition

Create partitions

Question 12

Which of the following information is displayed using the lsblk command? [Choose all that apply.]

Answer 12

The total size of the partition

The mount points if any available

The total size of the block

Question 13

Which parameter should you use to list the empty devices with the lsblk command?

Answer 13

-a

Question 14

Which parameter should you use to list the device size in bytes with the lsblk com

Answer 14

-b

Question 15

Which parameter of the lsblk command will list only the main devices, not the slave devices?

Answer 15

-d

Question 16

lab 5-4

When you boot a Linux system, the _____ filesystem is mounted as part of the initialization process.

Answer 16

the root (/) filesystem

Question 17

The _______ file lists the partitions that will be detected at the boot time. It also defines which filesystem is mounted as the root partition (/).

Answer 17

/etc/fstab

Question 18

Which command should you use to find the UID of a filesystem?

Answer 18

blkid

Question 19

To view the current partitions mounted, which command should you use?

Answer 19

mount -v

Question 20

To mount a CD-ROM, in which directory should you create a directory?

Answer 20

/media

Question 21

lab 5-5

You can use view the ______ file to view the hard drive details.

Answer 21

/proc/partitions

Question 22

The _______ command displays the information about the mounted filesystems.

Answer 22

df

Question 23

The _______ utility is meant to list the disk space usage on filesystems.

Answer 23

df

Question 24

The __________ utility is meant to list the SCSI devices on a system.

Answer 24

lsscsi

Question 25

The _________ utility is meant to print the drive information.

Answer 25

smartctl

Question 26

lab 5-6

Which utility can repair a damaged filesystem?

Answer 26

fsck

Question 27

Which two parameters should you use with fsck to auto repair errors if they are detected? [Choose two.]

Question 28

Using which parameter of the fsck command can you check the mounted file systems?

Answer 28

-M

Question 29

After issuing the fsck -M /dev/sda1 command, which command should generate the output as 0 or 1?

Answer 29

echo $?

Question 30

Which parameter should you use with the fsck command to view the list of unmounted filesystems?

Answer 30

-M

Question 31

lab 5-7

To configure the disk quota, you first add the filesystems that require the quotas implemented to the _________ file.

Answer 31

/etc/fstab

Question 32

Which parameter of quotacheck command creates the quota files for each filesystem that has quota enabled?

Answer 32

-c

Question 33

Which parameter of the quotacheck command creates the quota files for a user quota?

Answer 33

-u

Question 34

Which parameter of the quotacheck command checks for locally mounted filesystems that have quota enabled?

Answer 34

-a

Question 35

Which parameter of the quotacheck command checks for the group quota?

Answer 35

-g

Question 36

lab 5-8

Which type of information is indicated by an inode? [Choose all that apply.]

Answer 36

file size,
file type,
access permission

Question 37

Which command should you use to determine the partition of the current working directory?

Answer 37

df .

Question 38

Which command is used to determine the disk usage?

Answer 38

du

Question 39

Which command is used to verify the integrity of a filesystem?

Answer 39

fsck

Question 40

Which parameter should you use with the fsck command to force to check the integrity of a filesystem?

Answer 40

-f