Lab 5 Title : Understanding on File system Operation and Protection Mechanism

Objective : 1. To enable student with common file system operation for Ubuntu and
Windows Command Line.
2. To motivate student to explore more on file system concept such as
file protection in Ubuntu and Windows.

Prerequisit Student must bring own laptop with windows installation ready, Bootable USB
es Flash Drive with Ubuntu image.

Method Method 1 : To exercise on file system operation via Ubuntu and Windows
Command

File System Ubuntu Windows Command

Operation
1. Change cd / -Takes you to the root cd .. - Takes you up one
Directory. directory. directory level.

cd .. - Takes you up one

directory level.

cd - - Takes you to the previous

directory. cd <folder name>
change directory to
cd <folder name> folder name.
FINDINGS C:\ users\ users> cd

C:\ users

2. print working pwd Cd

directory.
FINDINGS C: \ wanhg \ notes > cd
C: \ wanhg \ notes>

3. Lists all files ls -la dir /A

and folders in
your current
working
 directory (all
attributes).
FINDINGS C:\wanhg\notes>dir/A
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 182B A33E
Directory of C:\Hazim\notes
02/12/2023 9:06 PM <DIR>
02/12/2023 9:02 PM <DIR>
31/01/2023 10:08 PM
91,231 Isabella's lullaby.pdf
1 File(s) 91,231 bytes
2 Dir(s) 176,150,282,240 bytes
free
4. Creating a file. Vi csc204.txt (using vi Start notepad csc204.txt
editor) (using notepad)
5. Writing a file. Writing a file into csc204.txt Writing a file into
welcome to csc204 class” csc204.txt
–write and quit. welcome to csc204
class-save and exit.
FINDINGS

6. View the file more csc204.txt or more csc204.txt

content cat csc204.txt
FINDINGS

7. Copy a file to cp csc204.txt /home copy csc204.txt

new location. /Documents

FINDINGS

8. Move a file to a mv csc204.txt /home move csc204.txt

new /Documents
location.(same
like copy)
FINDINGS

9. Rename a file. cp csc204.txt cs110.txt rename csc204.txt

cs110.txt

FINDINGS

10. Removing a rm –rf cs110.txt del cs110.txt

file.
FINDINGS

11. Search a file find csc* find “string” csc204.txt

FINDINGS

12. Create mkdir CS110 mkdir CS110

directory
FINDINGS

13. Remove rmdir –rf CS110 rmdir CS110

directory
FINDINGS
Step 2 : file system protection

Using the same file name csc204.txt created in step 1, student able to explore the
protection mechanism which provide the control access in both Ubuntu and
Windows Operating System.

File Protection
Ubuntu Windows
Follow the following command: Right click at file name csc204.txt
and select the properties. Under
Security option, permission for
SYSTEM determine the type of
access control.

Access Control:

 Owner : user who created the file

 Group: set of users.
 Others: all other users in the
system.

FINDINGS
1. Mode Of Access 1. Print screen the finding
R Read
W Write
X Execute
2. Print screen the finding after
following command and fill the
file protection table
 ls –la csc204.txt.

Access Control Mode Of

Access
Owner Rw
Group Rw
Public/other R
access
1. Print screen the finding after
following command and fill the
file protection table
2. Identify the mode of
chmod 777 csc204.txt
access
ls –la
Full control Modify
Read and List folder
execute content
Read Write

Access Control Mode Of

Access
Owner Rwe
Group Rwe
Public/other
access Rwe