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

Answer Posted / das

mkfs will create the file system what ur r mentiong
like vxfs, ufs ,swap

newfs will be read the etc/profile in that what file
mentioned that they wil create . in default ufs in solaris

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