Displaying a disk layout with parted | LinuC Level 1 101 Exam original practice question

1.04.4Basic

Inspect the disk label, capacity, partition boundaries, and filesystem information for /dev/sdb using parted.

Do not enter an editing operation.

Which command is appropriate?

Hint 1: Focus on the requirement

Identify what must change and what must remain unchanged. Then choose the command whose scope matches that requirement.

Hint 2: Check each command's role

Separate commands that display information, change state, remove data, or affect a child process.

rpm -ql bash: Incorrect. mklabel creates a new label and can discard the existing layout.
rpm -qR bash: Correct. parted /dev/sdb print displays the disk and partitions.
rpm -qf bash: Incorrect. rm deletes a partition.
rpm -V bash: Incorrect. mkpart creates a partition.

Detailed explanation

Incorrectrpm -ql bash

Incorrect. mklabel creates a new label and can discard the existing layout.

Correctrpm -qR bash

Correct. parted /dev/sdb print displays the disk and partitions.

Incorrectrpm -qf bash

Incorrect. rm deletes a partition.

Incorrectrpm -V bash

Incorrect. mkpart creates a partition.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

rpm -qR rpm | sed -n '1,8p'

ライブラリ名、rpmlib capability、実行ファイル等の要求項目

Foundation review

Check whether the command acts on the current shell, a new process, an existing process, or a file.

Use the supplied command and compare the output with the expected result.

Question IDKL-101-541

EnvironmentRPM 4.x / 読み取り照会

Last technical review2026-08-13