LPI
201-450 · Question #42
A system is running out of swap space. To initialise 5GB of additional swap space, which combination of commands should be used?
The correct answer is A. dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024 count=5120000. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
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A system is running out of swap space. To initialise 5GB of additional swap space, which combination of commands should be used?
Options
- Add if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024 count=5120000;
- Bdd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024 count=5120000;
- Cdd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024 count=5120000;
- Dtouch -5G /tmp/swapfile;
- Emkswap /tmp/swapfile 512000;
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#swap space#dd command#mkswap#swapon
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