Choosing the ESP filesystem | LinuC Level 1 101 Exam original practice question

1.04.4Basic

Create an EFI System Partition for a typical UEFI PC.

Choose a filesystem that firmware can read directly.

Which filesystem is normally selected?

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: Correct. FAT32/VFAT is the widely compatible ESP format.
rpm -qf /bin/bash: Incorrect. Swap is a memory-backup area and stores no normal files.
rpm -qR bash: Incorrect. XFS is a Linux filesystem but is not the usual firmware-readable ESP format.
rpm -V bash: Incorrect. Btrfs is not the standard UEFI ESP format.

Detailed explanation

Correctrpm -ql bash

Correct. FAT32/VFAT is the widely compatible ESP format.

Incorrectrpm -qf /bin/bash

Incorrect. Swap is a memory-backup area and stores no normal files.

Incorrectrpm -qR bash

Incorrect. XFS is a Linux filesystem but is not the usual firmware-readable ESP format.

Incorrectrpm -V bash

Incorrect. Btrfs is not the standard UEFI ESP format.

An example you can run in a temporary verification environment.

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

rpmパッケージが配置したファイルパス

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-101-544

EnvironmentRPM 4.x / ローカルRPM DB

Last technical review2026-08-13