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11-23-2005

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Solaris 10 can be downloaded for free (for private use only).

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

Sun is using lots of commands that are specific to their Unix.

Anything else, you'd do well learning one of the BSD's that are around, as mentioned above.

I agree with the others in that if you know howto use Linux it will be easy to use a Unix box. Instead, once you know Unix, you'll have to adapt a lot to a Linux OS.

The best match would be using either Red Hat or SuSE, because they are widely spread. If you want to go for the pro and stable stuff, get Debian or Slackware instead.

All these OS (Unix BSD or SystemV), Plan9 or Linux comply to the free ISO POSIX standard:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/toc.htm

There are numerous other realtime OS's which comply with this standard such as LynxOS and VXworks.

Cheers,
LePiaf

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)						       System Administration						       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [options] device [block-count]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs filesystem on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The block-count parameter is the desired size of the filesystem, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used.

OPTIONS

       -N, --inodes number
	      Specify  the  desired  number  of  inodes (at most 512).	If nothing is specified, some default number in the range 48-512 is picked
	      depending on the size of the partition.

       -V, --vname label
	      Specify the volume label.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F, --fname name
	      Specify the filesystem name.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v, --verbose
	      Explain what is being done.

       -c     This option is silently ignored.

       -l     This option is silently ignored.

       -h, --help
	      Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information and exit.  Option -V only works as --version when it is the only option.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux							     July 2011							       MKFS.BFS(8)