LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell
by Jeffrey Dean

The following errata were *corrected* in the 6/05 reprint:

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem



{15}  1st paragraph, 3rd sample entry;
[$ ...series of commands on arg2...]

NOW READS:
[$ ...series of commands on arg3...]



[73]  1st paragraph;
"On each disk in a PC, there may be between 1 and 16 partitions."

NOW READS:
"On each disk in a PC, there must be at least one partition in order
for the disk to be useful.  On an IDE disk, there may be up to 64
partitions.  On a SCSI disk, there may be up to 16 partitions."



[73]  1st paragraph under Logical partitions;
"1 to 12 logical partitions may be created.  Logical partitions are
numbered from 5 to 16."

NOW READS:
"On an IDE disk, up to 60 logical partitions may be created.  On a SCSI
disk, up to 12 logical partitions may be created.  Logical partitions
are numbered starting with 5."



[73]  2nd paragraph under Logical partitions;
"Under this PC partitioning scheme, a maximum of 15 partitions with
filesystems may exist on a single physical disk (3 primary plus 12
logical), more than enough..."

NOW READS:
"Under this PC partitioning scheme, a maximum of 15 or 63 partitions
with filesystems may exist on a single physical disk (3 primaries plus
12 logical for SCSI and 3 primaries plus 60 logical for IDE), ..."



[74]  1st paragraph;
"It is unlikely that all of the 15 possible partitions on a disk would
be necessary just to support Linux."

NOW READS:
"... 63 or even 15 possible partitions ..."



{98} Example 2
Turn on user quotas only on the /home filesystem:

# quotaon -gv /home


NOW READS:
Turn on user quotas only on the /home filesystem:

#  quotaon -u /home