A server administrator mounted a new hard disk on a Linux system with a mount point of /newdisk. It was later determined that users were unable to create directories or files on the new mount point…

The correct answer is C. mount -o remount, rw /newdisk. The administrator should use the command mount -o remount,rw /newdisk to successfully mount the drive with the required parameters. The mount command is used to mount file systems on Linux systems. The -o option specifies options for mounting file systems. The remount option…

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A server administrator mounted a new hard disk on a Linux system with a mount point of /newdisk. It was later determined that users were unable to create directories or files on the new mount point. Which of the following commands would successfully mount the drive with the required parameters?

Options

Aecho /newdisk >> /etc/fstab
Bnet use /newdisk
Cmount -o remount, rw /newdisk
Dmount -a

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Explanation

The administrator should use the command mount -o remount,rw /newdisk to successfully mount the drive with the required parameters. The mount command is used to mount file systems on Linux systems. The -o option specifies options for mounting file systems. The remount option re- mounts an already mounted file system with different options. The rw option mounts a file system with read- write permissions. In this case, /newdisk is a mount point for a new hard disk that was mounted with read-only permissions by default. To allow users to create directories or files on /newdisk, the administrator needs to re-mount /

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#Filesystem management#Linux commands#Mount points#Permissions

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