Chapter 2 - LinuxPro

For which of the following directories should you create seperate partitions?

/home /var

When manually partitioning your hard drive during installation, which directory, or mount point, should be configured with its own partiion in order to keep log files from using too much hard drive space (and potentially bringing the Linux system down)?

/var

Most Linux distrobutions will propose to create the root (/) and swap partitions by default. To rpevent user fiels and system log files from filling up the / partition, which 2 additinoal partitions are you most strongly recommended to create? (There are two.)

/var /home

During installation you need to make sure there is plenty of hard drisk space allocated to the partition that is going to hold the entire Linux operating system? What is the mount point for this partition?

/

You are installing Linux on an old computer with an old BIOS, and you are planning out the partitions of the hard drive. Which of the following directories should exist in the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk drive?

/boot

Which of the following directories must remain on the same partiton. (There are two.)

/etc /bin /lib

Which of the following directories should be part of the partition that holds the root (/) directory? (There are three.)

/etc /proc /bin

What is the full path to the directory that contains user data for all standard users on the system?

/home

When manually partitioning your hard drive during installation, which directory, or mount point, should be configured with its own partition in order to keep users from using too much hard drive space (and potentnially bringing the Linux system down)?

/home

What is the full path to the directory that contains the lcoale configuration files on a Linux system?

/usr/share/locale

You have a linux system with 8GB of RAM installed. You plan to use this as a server system. How much space shoul you plan to partition for the swap file?

8 GB

This locale envrioment variable is a special variable for overriding all other settings. It sets all locales to the same settings.

LC_ALL

Which envrionment variable overrides all toher locale settings and sets all locales to the same setting?

LC_ALL

This locale envrioment variable defines all locale settigns at once, while allowing further individual customization via the LC_* settings

LANG

You are piping the data from the cat command to another program. but the data is garbled. You believe the locale is corrupting the output. Which variable setting should you change to avoid the problem described above?

LANG=C

This locale envrioment variable specifically used an override for LC_MESSAGES

LANGUAGE

This locale envrioment variable specifies personal name format

LC_NAME

You are teaching new users about security and passwords. Which example of the passwords would be the most secure password?

T1a73gZ9!

Which command should you use to convert encoding from one type to another?

iconv

As which user is it bad practice for Linux administrators to reguiarly login as to do non-administrative tasks?

root

Which partition functions as virtual memory?

swap