Try the Option -p so you will see a progress bar while linux is formatting the dasd....
-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 13. Januar 2003 20:09 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: DASDFMT on Suse 7.2 distro How long after 'Finshed formatting the device' on a 'dasdfmt -n 0D18 -b 4096 -l L40D18' command should dasdfmt be sticking around waiting to return to the shell? It's been easily 2 hours since the message was issued. The time parameter keeps going up on the ps -r display and top shows the tasks at least using variable rates of CPU. Just curious as to what it's doing after 'Finishing formatting the device' is seen
