On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Mark Milano wrote:
> How can I "newfs" a partition on my hard drive? I am used to Solaris and
> "newfs" is there a similar command for Linux.
>
> Mark
> RH 7.0
>
I do not know exactly what newfs does, but if it formats a partation for
use, then what you are after is the mkfs command, or mke2fs, mkdosfs,
mkisofs, etc are what you are looking for. Mkfs is a front end for the
other mk<file system> commands.
Mikkel
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