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1) Executing the ‘cd ..’ command when at the root level causes

    Error message indicating the user can’t access beyond the root level
    Behavior is unix-flavor dependent
    Results in changing to the ‘home’ directory
    Nothing happens

Answer : D Discuss

2) How do you rename file “new” to file “old”?

    mv new old
    move new old
    cp new old
    rn new old

Answer : A Discuss

3) What command is used to copy files and directories?

    copy
    cp
    rn
    cpy

Answer : B Discuss

4) When mv f1 f2 is executed which file’s inode is freed?

    f1
    f2
    new inode will be used
    no inode is freed

Answer : B Discuss

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5) Any file’s attribute information is stored in which structure on the disk

    Inode
    Data blocks
    File blocks
    Directory file

Answer : A Discuss

6) How many links are created when we creat a directory file?

    1
    2
    3
    4

Answer : B Discuss

7) A user creates a link to a file file1 using the following command “ln file1 file2”. Which of the following is not true?

    file1 and file2 have the same inode numbers
    The number of links for file1 is displayed as 1
    The number of links for file1 is displayed as 2
    The number of links for file2 is displayed as 2

Answer : B Discuss

8) There are two hard links to the “file1” say hl and h2 and a softlink sl. What happens if we deleted the “file1”?

    We will still be able to access the file with hl and h2 but not with sl
    We will not be able to access the file with hl and h2 but with sl
    We will be able to access the file with any of hl, h2 and sl
    We will not be able to access the file with any of hl, h2 and sl

Answer : A Discuss

9) If two files on same partition point to the same inode structure they are called

    Soft links
    Hard links
    Alias
    Special files

Answer : B Discuss

10) Deleting a soft-link

    Deletes the destination file
    Deletes both the softlink and the destination file
    Deletes just the softlink
    backup of the destination is automatically created

Answer : C Discuss

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