System Administration

Due: End of Friday Lab

Chapter 14

Note that the dump and restore commands mentioned in this chapter have not yet been installed in the Solaris lab.

Read Chapter 14 and answer these questions:

1. Review questions: all
   
2. When a directory inode is damaged, the fsck program collects the files that were in that directory and puts them in a lost+found directory using the inode number of each file as its name.  Why can't fsck restore the file names?
   
3. In the paragraph numbered "3" on page 493, the author talks about group "wheel".  Is what he says true under Solaris and Linux?
   
4. What happens if you exit from the shell in single-user mode?
   
5. Where does Solaris store the crontab file that you create using the crontab(1) command?
   
6. How much actual disk space will a thousand one-character files use under Solaris?
   
7. How much actual disk space will one thousand-character file use under Solaris?