Mark, not necessarily. This change has no real impact to Linux. The only visible difference is the data set name. Here we have now PART0001 up to PART0003 instead of PART0000 up to PART0002. All other VTOC information (e.g. partition start and size) will not change. If you use these data set names, you could "update" them to the new naming schema by using fdasd, but you don't have to.
It may be important for backups of single partitions, in case the naming scheme changes between backup and restore. Then a wrong partition could be overwritten. But normally if someone uses fdasd, he wants to change partitions and then his partition backups are useless anyway. regards Volker > Volker, > So, should we tell people that they should run fdasd against any "old" disks > and that the partition information will be re-written without any loss of > data? Or something else? > Mark Post
