Disk and File System Administration - Solaris 9 System Administrator - page 174

Exam Prep Practice Questions

Question 1

Which of the following activities can be performed using the format command?
[Select all that apply.]
❑ A. Display a partition table

❑ B. Modify a single partition in a partition table

❑ C. Replace the entire partition table

❑ D. Copy the partition table from one disk to another

The correct answers are A, B, and C. Although a partition table can be cre-
ated, saved, and used on another disk, the format command does not provide
a method for copying a table from one disk to another.

Question 2

What is the name of the command that can be used to display the date and time
the file systems were mounted?

The correct answer is mount .

Question 3

Select the command that supports dynamic reconfiguration for hot-plugging.
❍ A. reconfig

❍ B. configadm

❍ C. cfgadm

The correct answer is C. Answers A and B are not valid.

Question 4

What is the full pathname of the file used to map between physical device names
and instance names (driver binding name and instance number)?

The correct answer is /etc/path_to_inst .