SCSA10-1 Objective 2.5 - Solaris filesystem types and creation
A disk partition/slice is of no use to an operating system (most of the time) without a filesystem (like NTFS on Windows machines). This objective covers several types of filesystems available on Solaris and how to create a UFS filesystem:
Explain the Solaris 10 OS file system, including disk-based, distributed, devfs, and memory file systems related to SMF, and create a new UFS file system using options for <1Tbyte and >1Tbyte file systems.
Sun’s documentation site provides a good, quick review of the filesystem types available in Solaris 10.
Creating a UFS filesystem is generally simple. The newfs command only requires the raw device for a drive slice (like /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3) to create a standard UFS filesystem on the device. There are options to tweak the created filesystem, some of which are described in the Sun link above.
Creating a multiterabyte UFS is as simple as adding the -T option to newfs. The details of making big filesystems is available here.