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An administrator needs to add a 1GB swap partition on /dev/sdd1. Which series of commands accomplishes this?
2A filesystem is reported as 'read-only' after a system crash. The admin runs fsck and sees 'clean' status. What is the most likely reason it remains read-only?
3Which TWO commands are valid for resizing an XFS file system? (Choose exactly two.)
4A system administrator needs to create a file system on a new 10GB partition /dev/sdb1 for use with a database that requires high reliability and supports snapshots. Which file system type should be chosen?
5A technician runs 'mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1' and later mounts it. The file system is reported as having a block size of 1024 bytes. What is the most likely reason?
6Which command displays the UUID of all file systems on the system?
7An administrator wants to ensure that a file system is automatically mounted at boot. Which file should be edited?
8A server has an LVM volume group vg01 with a physical volume /dev/sdb. The administrator wants to move all physical extents from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdd which is also in the same volume group. Which command sequence is correct?
9In /etc/fstab, which values in the dump and pass fields enable automatic file system checking at boot?
10The administrator attempts to run 'xfs_growfs /dev/vg00/lvol1' but receives an error. What is the most likely cause?
11The administrator wants to reduce the file system size to 40GB. Which command sequence should be used?
12The root filesystem is at 90% capacity. Which command increases available space without unmounting?
13A system administrator runs 'mount -a' and receives an error: 'mount: /mnt/nfs: mount point does not exist'. The /etc/fstab entry is: server:/export /mnt/nfs nfs defaults 0 0. What is the most likely cause?
14The administrator wants to mount a new filesystem on /dev/sdb1 with the label 'backup' and mount it at /mnt/backup. Which commands achieve this?
15An administrator needs to create a new 500MB swap partition on a disk that already has an extended partition. The disk /dev/sda has partitions: /dev/sda1 (primary, /boot), /dev/sda2 (extended), /dev/sda5 (logical, swap, 2GB). The administrator wants to add another swap partition, but fdisk shows no free space. Which approach should be used?
16After adding the last line to /etc/fstab, the system fails to boot with an error. What is the most likely cause?
17Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs xfs_growfs on /dev/sdc1. What is the most likely reason the command succeeded without prior partition resizing?
18Refer to the exhibit. An administrator wants to mount /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/storage. What must be done first?
19Refer to the exhibit. After mounting /dev/sdb1 with the noexec option, a script located at /mnt/data/test.file cannot be executed. What change will allow execution while maintaining security?
20Refer to the exhibit. An administrator tries to mount the partition /dev/sdc1 and gets a superblock error. What is the most likely cause?
21Refer to the exhibit. An administrator needs to create a new 5GB filesystem for /var/log. Which step is required?
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