CMIT 391

Name:__________________________________

Partitions, filesystems, mounting


On each of the three Linuxes: paste the (specific) output:

Fedora:
/proc/partitions

ls -l  of the device files of those partitions.

df's output about them.

mount's output about them.

Their entries in /etc/fstab

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Xen:
/proc/partitions

ls -l  of the device files of those partitions.

df's output about them.

mount's output about them.

Their entries in /etc/fstab

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cmit265:
/proc/partitions

ls -l  of the device files of those partitions.

df's output about them.

mount's output about them.

Their entries in /etc/fstab

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What filesystem-specific mount commands are available on each system?
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:


What entries are in /etc/fstab about removable media:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:

Does each system use /mnt or /media for removable media mount points:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:

What files/directories are in that directory:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:


Add the Mounter applet to your Fedora panel.
What does it indicate is mounted?__________________________________

Insert a USB flash memory stick into Fedora.
What does Mounter applet indicate is mounted?__________________________________
What is added to:
/proc/partitions
mount
df
ls -l of its device file

USB memory sticks (somehow) use the SCSI software.
Look in /proc/scsi/usb-storage for the file about the stick.  Paste
its contents here:


Insert a CD into Fedora.
What does Mounter applet indicate is mounted?__________________________________
What is added to:
/proc/partitions
mount
df
ls -l of its device file

CDs (somehow) use the SCSI software.
Look in /proc/scsi/scsi for information about the CD drive.  Paste
that info here:

scsi_info  

umount  the device file or the mount point to unmount the removable media.
eject  to eject it.


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Do regular users UIDs start at 500 or 1000:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:


Use either
cut -d: -f N   /etc/passwd
awk -F: '{print $N}'  /etc/passwd
where N is a number to extract the Nth field of the colon-delmited
passwd file.

List the different login applications that are used by the entries in
the passwd file.  Hint: extract the field, pipe into sort -u
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:

What is your default group and its GID:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:

What is your hashed password (2nd field of /etc/shadow)
Xen:

What is your umask:
Fedora:
Xen:
cmit265:

On your Fedora, 
change umask to 077, create a file and a directory. their permissions
file     :
directory:

change umask to 027, create a file and a directory. their permissions
file     :
directory:

change umask to 022, create a file and a directory. their permissions
file     :
directory:

List the filenames in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin that have SUID.
the man page of find has an example: find /dir -perm -4000