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 29203

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

1 5033

Which partitioning tool is available in all distributions?

2 5550

Which file defines all users on your system?

8 13559

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

2 5515

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

2 5221

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

2 7942

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

HCL,

2 7886

How do you change permissions on a directory of file?

4 7349

How can you view a file?

5 7536

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

3 6501

Where is standard output usually directed?

2 6025

What account is created when you install Linux?

7 16730

Why you shouldn’t use the root login?

2 5547

How big should the swap-space partition be?

7 9540

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Un-Answered Questions { Linux General }

What does the linux kernel do?

867

Which is best linux for beginners?

951

How would you schedule a task in linux?

993

Explain how to enable root logging in ubuntu?

994

What is pthread_mutex?

813

Is mac faster than linux?

909

Which utility is used to make automate rotation of a log?

935

Does google own linux?

858

Is windows 10 built on linux?

980

Does playonlinux install wine?

888

What is ssh? How to connect to a remote server via ssh?

989

Linux initially was developed for intel x86 architecture but has been ported to another hardware platform than any other operating system. Do you agree?

1099

Suppose your company is recently switched from microsoft to linux and you have some ms word document to save and work in linux, what will you do?

1063

Explain process id.

913

Is pfsense linux?

984

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