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 28707

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

1 4968

Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?

2 5452

Which file defines all users on your system?

8 13360

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

2 5429

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

2 5108

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

2 7857

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

HCL,

2 7816

How do you change permissions on a directory of file?

4 7208

How can you view a file?

5 7400

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

3 6397

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 5930

What account is created when you install Linux?

7 16509

Why you shouldn’t use the root login?

2 5498

How big should the swap-space partition be?

7 9318

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

Users come to you and they will be saying mail server is very slow, what are the necessary steps you will take to resolve this issue in Linux?

952

How can we check disk/device status/failure/errors using smartctl utility?

999

What are the types of processes in linux?

942

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

997

How do I start linux?

902

How do you terminate an ongoing process?

1195

Is bsd faster than linux?

926

How do you refer to the parallel port where devices such as printers are connected?

999

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

867

Is linux user friendly?

835

You need to search for the string “tecmint” in all the “.txt” files in the current directory. How will you do it?

1042

Is libdvdcss legal?

1014

How do I know if wget is installed on linux?

930

What is semaphore in unix example?

857

Can linux get viruses?

827

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