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Project 5-1 2. character device. character device file. 4 3. yes. 4. no. 5. created a tty6 file. mknod c.

yes the file was created. 6. cause tty6 was successfully created in step 5. 7. major number and permissions. no its the same for all. yes cause minor number used by the kernel to identify which device driver to call to interact properly with a given category of hardware: hdd, CD-roms, and video card. similar device s share a common major number. 8. yes there are so many file names. sProviding this large number of redundant d evice files on a Linux system does not require much disk space because all device files consist of inodes and no data blocks; as a result, the entire co ntents of the /dev directory are usually less than 700 Kilobytes in size, which could easily fit on a floppy disk. 9. character devices and block devices. 1-254. tty. this info is more accurate t han was given in step 2. Project 5-2 6. no. 8. yes 9. hosts, cause it was copied there in previous stpes. 10.yes. 11.hosts and inittab. cause these files were copied in mymount directory in prev ious steps. 13.the inittab file is avaialable, however there is no lost+found directory here . 14.root. yes, umount: /mymount: not mounted. Discovery Exercise 1: A. B. C. D. dumpe2fs -h mount df -T fsck

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