Linux Questions & Answers – File Management – 1

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1. Which of the following time stamps need not exist for a file on traditional unix file system
a) Access Time
b) Modification Time
c) Creation Time
d) Change Time
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2. Which command is used to set limits on file size
a) fsize
b) flimit
c) ulimit
d) usize
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3. Which option of rmdir command will remove all directories a, b, c if path is a/b/c
a) –b
b) –o
c) –p
d) –t
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4. Which represents the user home directory
a) /
b) .
c) ..
d) ~
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5. If a file is removed in Unix using ‘rm’ then
a) The file can be recovered by a normal user
b) The file cannot be recovered by a user
c) The file can be fully recovered provided the sytem is not rebooted
d) The file will be moved to /lost+found directory and can be recovered only by administrator’s intervention
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6. Executing the ‘cd ..’ command when at the root level causes
a) Error message indicating the user can’t access beyond the root level
b) Behavior is unix-flavor dependent
c) Results in changing to the ‘home’ directory
d) Nothing happens
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7. How do you rename file “new” to file “old”?
a) mv new old
b) move new old
c) cp new old
d) rn new old
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8. What command is used to copy files and directories?
a) copy
b) cp
c) rn
d) cpy
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9. When mv f1 f2 is executed which file’s inode is freed?
a) f1
b) f2
c) new inode will be used
d) no inode is freed
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10. Any file’s attribute information is stored in which structure on the disk
a) Inode
b) Data blocks
c) File blocks
d) Directory file
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