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FILESYSTEM  INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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11..Where the  system configuration files  stored in the linux sever?

/etc

12..Where  the file . bashrc is  located?

The . bashrc file is locataed in the /home/username directory.

13..How to remove  the file system?

unmount  /mountpoint

delete  the appropriate entry in  /etc/fstab

rmdir  /mountpoint   

14..What is the use of encrypted file system ?

An encrypted filesystem will protect against bare-metal attacks against a hard drive

15..How can    you create the  ext4 filesystem?

# mke2fs   -t  ext4 /dev/dev_name

16..What is btrfs?

B-tree file system was developed by multiple companies as follows Oracle, Redhat, Fujitsu, Intel, Facebook, Linux Foundation, Suse, etc. Brtfs will support maximum up-to 16 exbibyte and filesize can be maximum up-to 8 exbibyte, due to limitation of kernel.

Files can be created in any characters except “/” and NULL. Btrfs has self-healing features and have the capability of spanning multiple volumes

17..How to install  the btrfs filesystem?

# yum install -y btrfs-progs

18..How  to  create a btrfs filesystem?

# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdd

 19..How to resize the  btrfs filesystem?

# btrfs filesystem resize -500m  /dev/sdd

20..What is NFS?

Network File System (NFS) is the traditional way on Unix and

Linux for remote hosts to be able to mount filesystems over a network and interact

with them as if they were mounted locally

21..Explain the different  filesystems  and its  usage ?

Filesystem	Description
ext	Linux Extended filesystem—the original Linux filesystem
ext2	Second extended filesystem, provided advanced features over ext
ext3	Third extended filesystem, supports journaling
ext4	Fourth extended filesystem, supports advanced journaling
hpfs	OS/2 high-performance filesystem
iso9660	ISO 9660 filesystem (CD-ROMs)
nfs	Network File System
ntfs	Support for Microsoft NT filesystem
ReiserFS	Advanced Linux file system for better performance and disk recovery
smb	Samba SMB filesystem for network access