Thomas Kern wrote: >If such a tool can be made, why not go just a bit further and mimic what >would have been done by dasdfmt and fdisk (1 partion on the whole mdisk)?
Indeed. This can't be THAT hard, but the problem is that it needs someone who understands BOTH sides of the fence at a fairly deep level. Or two someones, one on each side, who can talk to each other. Boeblingen? >And optionally, why not put in the correct blocks that mimic an mkfs? Which fs? ext2? ext3? Reiser? xFS? HamsterFS? etc... and Jim Stracka wrote, re only formatting cylinder 0: >If the owner of the z/Linux guest does not remember to >reformat it after it is given to the guest, they could easily forget >that most if it is still unformatted. They might even get far enough to >pvcreate it, and add it to a VG, only to find out when they run mkfs >that it is mostly bad. So the "cylinder 0" solution would work for all cases you can think of except LVM? If so, I wonder if there isn't a way to set cylinder 0 so that it looks formatted but with 0 size, such that adding it to a VG would fail. I'm far from knowing enough to even guess at whether this is reasonable, I'm afraid. ...phsiii
