UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Looking for a good online primer/intro to creating a new file system, mounting, and eventually using NFS. Do you use newfs then mount or mount then newfs, how do you work with a new partition to create a new file system.... it's all a bit confusing.

The man pages are a little too verbose and confusing and asking in the computer forum on Craigslist was even less than no help at all. I've googled for this and what I found wasn't good.

I'm just looking for a few good online primers/intros on using newfs, mounting, and working with new parititions on *nix. Just something to get a better feel for it.

Do you have bookmarks on this to share or just know of a good online resource for this?

Muy appreciated.

First question for you - what OS and version?

If Solaris is your OS, then you would use these steps:
1. create a new partition from the format command
2. newfs the partition (# newfs /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?
3. mount the new partition (# mount /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s? /newmntpoint
3. Use it - you then can put share it as a NFS drive