Disk partitioning, filesystem types, and mounting commands used to manage storage on Linux systems.
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- What does MBR stand for in disk partitioning?
- Master Boot Record
- What is the maximum number of primary partitions an MBR-partitioned disk can have?
- Four
- What disk partition table format supports disks larger than 2 TB?
- GPT (GUID Partition Table)
- Which partition table type is required for UEFI systems?
- GPT
- What does GPT stand for?
- GUID Partition Table
- Name the command-line tool used to create and manage MBR partitions interactively.
- fdisk
- Name the command-line tool that can work with both MBR and GPT partition tables.
- parted
- What is ext4?
- A journaling filesystem for Linux with support for large files, extents, and extent-based allocation
- What is the default filesystem for most modern Linux distributions?
- ext4
- What filesystem is commonly preferred for large-scale enterprise deployments and data centers?
- XFS
- What is a key advantage of Btrfs over ext4?
- It supports copy-on-write, subvolumes, snapshots, and RAID at the filesystem level
- Which filesystem type is commonly used on removable media and Windows-compatible storage?
- FAT32
- What package typically provides native NTFS read and write support on Linux?
- ntfs-3g
- What key feature did ext3 add that ext2 lacked?
- Journaling
- What command displays information about all block devices on the system in a tree-like format?
- lsblk