Creating a UFS File System
Use the newfs command to create UFS file systems. newfs is a convenient front end to the mkfs command, the program that creates the new file system on a disk slice.
On Solaris 9 systems, information used to set some of the parameter defaults, such as number of tracks per cylinder and number of sectors per track, is read from the disk label. newfs determines the file system parameters to use, based on the options you specify and information provided in the disk label. Parameters are then passed to the mkfs (make file system) command, which builds the file system. Although you can use the mkfs command directly, it’s more difficult to use and you must supply many of the parameters manually. (The use of the newfs ...
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