Linux General Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Linux General Interview Questions

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What is the minimum number of partitions you need to install Linux?

HCL, Vedam,

18 28133

Which partitions might you create on mail server HDDs other than the root, swap and boot partitions?

1 4892

Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?

2 5349

Which file defines all users on your system?

8 13058

Do you know the correct sequence of fields in /etc/passwd file?

2 5308

When you create a new partition, in what terms you need to designate its size

2 5005

What file defines the levels of messages written to system log files?

2 7729

List all the files with ‘.mem’ extension in reverse alphabetical order in a particular directory?

HCL,

2 7690

How do you change permissions on a directory of file?

4 7017

How can you view a file?

5 7208

Explain the read, write, and execute permissions on a UNIX directory

3 6249

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 5806

What account is created when you install Linux?

7 16201

Why you shouldn’t use the root login?

2 5394

How big should the swap-space partition be?

7 9059

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

Why linux is safe?

859

Can I install linux on mac?

807

How to reduce or shrink the size of LVM partition?

803

What is a shebang line?

872

What utility do we have to use for a log to rotate automatically?

862

What is the difference between cron and anacron?

1028

Does linux run faster than windows?

875

How do you terminate an ongoing process?

1134

What are the contents in /usr/local?

861

What does swap mean in linux?

867

What is a typical size for a swap partition under a linux system?

940

In what way are home directories different from working directory?

937

Is arch linux hard to use?

794

Which is the most stable linux distro?

838

What software runs on linux?

907

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