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File Systems Review Questions
Anon edited this page Jan 2, 2017
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- Superblock
- Data Block
- Inode
- Relative Path
- File Metadata
- Hard and Soft Links
- Permission Bits
- Working with Directories
- Virtual File System
- Reliable File Systems
- RAID
- How big can files be on a file system with 15 Direct blocks, 2 double, 3 triple indirect, 4kb blocks and 4byte entries? (Assume enough infinite blocks)
- What is a superblock? Inode? Datablock?
- How do I simplify
/./proc/../dev/./random/ - In ext2, what is stored in an inode, and what is stored in a directory entry?
- What are /sys, /proc, /dev/random, and /dev/urandom?
- What are permission bits?
- How do you use chmod to set user/group/owner read/write/execute permissions?
- What does the "dd" command do?
- What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link? Does the file need to exist?
- "ls -l" shows the size of each file in a directory. Is the size stored in the directory or in the file's inode?
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