1. Look in /etc/fstab or use df to see if /home is mounted on separate partition.
2. 1. to see all partitions on the computer

      fdisk -l

   2. to see all mounted partitions

      df

   3. fdisk -l | grep ^/ | wc -l

3. Add up the used space on partitions found from

   df -h

4. First eliminate all /media directories with umount and then:

   • du -sh /

1. echo $PATH

2. This gives no ls command.
3. 1. /home/username

   2. cd ../myusername

4. cd /var/tmp

5. cd /usr/share
   cd doc
   pwd
       

1. cd /proc

2. less cpuinfo

3. less meminfo

4. less swaps

5. less modules

6. cat uptime

7. less filesystems

• man proc
  • Refer to the man page of proc for more info about these files

11. cd /etc

12. remove question

13. remove question

14.

less issue
less motd

15. Note: for just the normal users, check for bash with the second command

      wc -l /etc/passwd
      grep bash /etc/passwd |wc -l 

16. wc -l /etc/group

17. /etc/timezone

18. find /usr -iname “*howto*”

19. cd /usr/share/doc

20.

cd /usr/share/doc/coreutils
      less README

or

info coreutils

21. From man bash: bash –version

1.       cd ~
         mkdir newdir
       

2. No

   1. mv newdir 
      /home (error: Permission denied)
            

3. 1. cd /usr/share/pixmaps
      cp *.xpm ~/newdir
            

   2. With this command several programs are listed indicating that XPM is X PixMap

       apropos xpm 

4. ls -r

5. mkdir ~/newdir2
   cp -r /etc/* ~/newdir2
       

   • Note that you will probably be denied permission to some of /etc

6. cd ~/newdir2
   mkdir Upper lower
   find . -name "[A-Z]*" -exec mv {} Upper \;
   find . -name "[a-z]*" -exec mv {} lower \;
       

7. find . -name "[!a-zA-Z]*" -exec rm {}  \;

8. rm -rf ~/newdir2 

9. Nothing found. Tried with xfs, server and font. No separate font server?

   cd /etc/init.d 
   grep font * |grep server 
       

10. sendmail not found. Most systems now use exim or postfix.

    which sendmail 
    locate sendmail
        

11. ln -s /var/tmp ~/mytmp
    ls ~/mytmp (will see the contents of /var/tmp
        

12. cd ~
    ln -s mytmp mynewtmp
    rm mytmp
    ls
      

    • mynewtmp is now red on black indicating a broken link

1. Only on the directory that you own-your home directory

2.  umask  

3. You cannot do this as normal user

4.  chmod o-r ~/.bashrc 

5. A long list of files scrolled by. Many were not in /root.

6.  ln -s /root ~/myroot

   • Yes, I can read files there, but cannot create or modify files.

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