When you format the filesystem with the command mkfs -t ext3 -T largefile /dev/hdb1 how much data is represented by a single inode?

The system is having trouble and the engineer wants to bypass the usual /sbin/init startup and run /bin/sh.

What is the usual way to pass this change to the kernel from your boot loader?

Which of the following commands can be used to instruct the init process to switch runlevels?

(Choose TWO correct answers)

The message "Hard Disk Error" is displayed on the screen during Stage 1 of the GRUB boot process. What does this indicate?

You have not run apt-get on a system for some time, but it has been run on the system before.

What apt-get command would you run to download the latest list of packages, but not the packages themselves?

You want to install a new software package, but it is only available in RPM format and you are running Debian Linux.

Which of the following would help you to install it on your system?

You have an USB storage device that you cannot get working. You have enabled all appropriate USB options in the latest 2.2 kernel but still cannot get your device working.

What is most likely the source of the problem?

When you are looking for brief information about a program in your PATH with its associated man pages, you would use …

You need to create a simple hierarchy of directories: images/photos/summer/ottawa/

None of the directories on that path exists. What command will create all of the needed directories in one step?

You have read/write permission on an ordinary file foo. You have just run ln foo bar.

What would happen if you ran rm foo?