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Which of the following partition types is used for Linux swap spaces when partitioning hard disk drives?

  • A. 7
  • B. 82
  • C. 83
  • D. 8e
  • E. fd
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

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minajahan
Highly Voted 4 years, 1 month ago
https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Mass-Storage-Definitions-Naming-HOWTO/x190.html
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iwkno6
Highly Voted 2 years, 11 months ago
82 Linux Swap 83 Linux
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Ninymo
Most Recent 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Answer: B
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waynewastaken
9 months, 1 week ago
This is one of those trivia questions that you don't really need to know. fdisk, e.g. lists swap along with the type #
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TheoDios
1 year ago
Actually also the word swap should be supported while doing the exam. The given example by ledlong leads to an output showing in the bottom part: [...] Aliases: linux - 83 swap - 82 [...]
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ledlong
2 years, 10 months ago
To see the list of known partition types, you can use fdisk utility. For example: #fdisk /dev/sda Choose m to show the menu if you dont know any option Then choose l to list all known partition types.
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aMiPL
3 years, 3 months ago
82 is Linux Swap
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