Ch20 Creating Partitions Exam

Ch20 Creating Partitions Exam

1. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to change a partition type?

   • d
   • g
   • f
   • t

2. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to create a new partition?

   • c
   • w
   • g
   • n

3. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to delete a partition?

   • d
   • g
   • s
   • r

4. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to list the current partition table?

   • l
   • p
   • w
   • s

5. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to quit without saving changes?

   • g
   • q
   • h
   • w

6. After running fdisk -cu /dev/sdb, what fdisk command will allow you to save changes and quit?

   • q
   • f
   • g
   • w

7. If you want to create a Fourth Extended Filesystem on a partition, which commands could you use? (choose two)

   • mkdosfs
   • mkextfs
   • mke2f
   • smkfs

8. If you want to initialize swap space that you’ve just created, which command would you run?

   • initswap
   • swapinit
   • swapon
   • mkswap

9. To activate a swap space that has been initialized, you can execute:

   • swapctl
   • swapcontrol
   • swapoff
   • swapon

10. What option to the fdisk command is used for MS-DOS compatibility mode?

    • -m
    • -c
    • -msdos
    • -d

11. What option to the fdisk command is used to display current partitions?

    • -a
    • -l
    • -p
    • -f

12. What option to the fdisk command is used to utilize sector unit sizes?

    • -s
    • -usize
    • -u
    • -t

13. What option to the mkfs command allows you to specify the type of filesystem to create?

    • -fstype
    • -fs
    • -f
    • -t

14. Which command is used from the command line, to edit your disk’s partition table?

    • fdisk
    • parttool
    • gedit
    • dedit

15. Which command is used to create a logical volume?

    • lvcreate
    • lvadd
    • create
    • createlv

16. Which command is used to create a physical volume?

    • create
    • pvadd
    • pvcreate
    • createpv

17. Which command is used to create a volume group?

    • createvg
    • create
    • vgcreate
    • vgadd

18. Which mke2fs option defines the block size of the filesystem?

    • -block
    • -bk
    • -b
    • -blk

19. Which of the following commands will allow you to add a physical volume to an existing volume group?

    • vgreduce
    • vgextend
    • vgadd
    • vgcreate

20. Which mke2fs option defines the percentage of the filesystem that is reserved for system use?

    • -g
    • -s
    • -r
    • -m

21. Which of the following commands will allow you to backup a partition table to a file and restore it at a later time?

    • sfdisk
    • ddisk
    • edisk
    • pdisk

22. Which program will non-destructively resize a partition and its installed filesystem?

    • lvcreate
    • sgdisk
    • parted
    • fdisk

23. The exFAT filesystem:

    • Is natively supported by Linux distributions
    • Is licensed under the GNU GPL
    • Only works with fixed disk drives
    • Was created by Microsoft for use with flash memory storage

24. Which of the following is not a feature of BTRFS?

    • snapshots
    • subvolumes
    • partitions limited to 2 terabytes
    • copy-on-write

25. The GPT partitioning system is limited to 2 terabytes True or False?

    • True
    • False

26. A graphical tool for managing GPT partitions is?

    • fdisk
    • gparted
    • graphical disk manager
    • gdisk