Linux Administration Handbook, Second Edition

5.7. Exercises

E5.1	What is a umask? Create a umask that would give no permissions to the group or the world.
E5.2	What is the difference between hard links and symbolic (soft) links? When is it appropriate to use one or the other?
E5.3	Read the man page for the /etc/fstab file. Write an entry that automatically mounts a Windows NTFS partition, /dev/hda1, at startup. Use the mount point /mnt/win_c.
E5.4	When installing a Linux system, it’s important to partition the hard drive such that each filesystem (/var, /usr, ...