A disk containing no system areas need not be formatted by CPFMTXA. The
only thing really needed is the volume label. That said, yes, you can
format only cylinder 0. "CPFMTXA dev volser 0 0" will do it.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: CPFMTXA VOLUME FORMATTING QUESTION
Hello all,
I have a new DASD address which has to be added to z/VM 5.3
which was previously formatted with a z/OS format.
I didn't do a CPFMTXA format.
I attached the volume to system and DDR'ed a few minidisks over
to the new volume.
So, cylinder 0 of the new volume is not in CP format. The
copied minidisks are O.K and I would hate to do the copies again.
Is there anyway to CPFMTXA just cylinder 0 and then allocate the
entire volume as PERM without loosing the copied minidisks?
Thanks.
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