wht is the difference between mkfs & newfs....
is there any difference..b/w both of them.?

Answer Posted / senthilveeranan

mkfs creates filesystems depends upon the option witch we
have given.
for example : mkfs -o vxfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7
mkfs -o ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6

but whith the help of #newfs we can creates only UFS,this
command is only for unix file system.

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