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wht is the difference between mkfs & newfs....
is there any difference..b/w both of them.?
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mkfs creates filesystems depends upon the option witch we
have given.
for example : mkfs -F vxfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7
mkfs -F 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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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.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 18 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / ankit
mkfs command is background command run but not showing
process.
but newfs is runing on forground, process showing of
formating filesystem and showing also no. of blocks.
by mkfs we can create and choose filesystem which we want
to create like vfat, ufs, vxfs, ext2, ext3.. etc.
in linux this is the only command which used for formating
partitions.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / 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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Answer / muthukumar
newfs is used to format the disk in UFS solaris file system.
mkfs is used to format the disk in Veritas file system
format
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Answer / t.k.chaitanya
mkfs creates linux filesystems
newfs creates UFS(unix fs)
actually there is no difference between mkfs and newfs
newfs is a user friendly front end of the mkfs
when we run newfs then in back ground it calls the mkfs
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