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Quiz #3 operating system linux
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Quiz # 2 Linux The ____ device file represents the first primary partition on the second IDE hard disk drive (primary slave). /dev/hdb To ensure that Linux has detected the correct amount of RAM in the system after installation, you can view the contents of the ____ file. /proc/meminfo the file descriptor stderr is represented by the number ____. 2 What does the last command (bold) perl script.pl > output.log & accomplish when entered on the CLI of the Linux system? The & makes the command run in the background. ____ is a freely available version of X Windows used in many Linux distributions. FreeX86 XFree86 X.org XFree XFree To check a filesystem for errors, you can use the _____ command, which can check filesystems of many different types. Fsck Which of the following commands will most likely increase the chance of a process receiving more time slices? renice - You can use the ____ command to start, stop, or restart any daemons listed within the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory. servi ce
The Linux kernel is stored in the ____ directory. /boot To create partitions after installation, you can use the _____ command fdisk The ____ file in the /proc directory contains statistics on the performance of the processor. Loadavg Most configuration files on Linux systems are delimited using ____ characters. Colon The ____ filesystem contains most of the operating system files. root To verify hardware settings, you can examine the contents of the ____ directory. /proc The two most common desktop environments that are used on Linux are ____ and ____. Gnome KDE You can redirect a file to the standard input of a command using the ____ metacharacter. < In Linux, runlevel ____ is also known as multiuser mode. 2 Before a user-defined variable can be used by processes that run in subshells, that variable must be _________. Exported CD-ROMs typically use the ____ filesystem type. iso