A unix file may be of type: (A) Regular file (B) Directory File (C) Device File (D) Any one of the above

A unix file may be of type: (A) Regular file (B) Directory File (C) Device File (D) Any one of the above 
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Description : The directory structure used in Unix file system is called (A) Hierarchical directory (B) Tree structured directory (C) Directed acyclic graph (D) Graph structured directory

Last Answer : (C) Directed acyclic graph

In Unix operating system, special files are used to : (A) buffer data received in its input from where a process reads (B) provide a mechanism to map physical device to file names (C) store list of file names plus pointers associated with i-nodes (D) store information entered by a user application program or utility program

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Last Answer : (B) provide a mechanism to map physical device to file names 

A UNIX file system has 1 KB block size and 4-byte disk addresses. What is the maximum file size if the inode contains ten direct block entries, one single indirect block entry, one double indirect block entry and one triple indirect block entry? (A) 30 GB (B) 64 GB (C) 16 GB (D) 1 GB

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Last Answer : (C) 16 GB

................. maintains the list of free disk blocks in the Unix file system. (A) I-node (B) Boot block (C) Super block (D) File allocation table

Description : ................. maintains the list of free disk blocks in the Unix file system. (A) I-node (B) Boot block (C) Super block (D) File allocation table

Last Answer : (C) Super block 

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Last Answer : (C) Scheduling parameters

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Last Answer : (A) Remove file chap0[1 - 3]

In Unix, the command to enable execution permission for file “mylife” by all is ................ (A) Chmod ugo+X myfile (B) Chmod a+X myfile (C) Chmod +X myfile (D) All of the above

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Last Answer : (D) All of the above

A unix file system has 1-KB blocks and 4-byte disk addresses. What is the maximum file size if i-nodes contain 10 direct entries and one single, double and triple indirect entry each? (A) 32 GB (B) 64 GB (C) 16 GB (D) 1 GB

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In Unix, the login prompt can be changed by changing the contents of the file ............... (A) contrab (B) init (C) gettydefs (D) inittab

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Last Answer : Answer: C

What is the function of following UNIX command? WC – l<a >b& (A) It runs the word count program to count the number of lines in its input, a, writing the result to b, as a foreground process. (B) It runs the word count program to count the number of lines in its input, a, writing the result to b, but does it in the background. (C) It counts the errors during the execution of a process, a, and puts the result in process b. (D) It copies the ‘ l ’ numbers of lines of program from file, a, and stores in file b.

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Last Answer : (B) It runs the word count program to count the number of lines in its input, a, writing the result to b, but does it in the background.

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Last Answer : (C) Each i-node is 256-bytes long.

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Last Answer : (2) $ head-3 shortlist | tr ‘[a-z]’ ‘[A-Z]’ 

File management function of the operating system includes i) File creation and deletion ii) Disk scheduling iii) Directory creation iv) Mapping file in secondary storage. A) i, ii and iii only B) i, iii and iv only C) ii, iii and iv only D) All i, ii, iii and iv

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Last Answer : B) i, iii and iv only

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Last Answer : C) ii, iii and iv only

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Last Answer : B) True, True

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Last Answer : (A) Process 0 is called init process.

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Last Answer : (B) Both files i.e. file1 and file2 can be edited using ‘ex’ command to travel between files

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Last Answer : (D) Crontab for individual users are not stored.

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Last Answer : (D) KILL is a blockable signal.

In UNIX operating system, when a process creates a new process using the fork() system call, which of the following state is shared between the parent process and child process? (A) Heap (B) Stack (C) Shared memory segments (D) Both Heap and Stack

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Last Answer : (C) Zombie Processes 

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Last Answer : (C) mkdir PIS PIS/progs PIS/data

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Last Answer : It is the first process in the system.

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Last Answer : A. cp chap?? progs

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