A fuller reply would have stated... The original HOWTO was written for SuSE 7.0, which had a 2.2.16 kernel. I'm not positive (I didn't write the HOWTO) the dasdfmt was really needed there. In the 2.4 kernel series, the DASD driver has been changed significantly. It should not be necessary to run dasdfmt against an FBA device. You can verify that the system is seeing it as FBA with a "cat /proc/dasd/devices" command.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Abdel Gharzita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Vdisk for swap on RH 7.2 A HOWTO document on www.linuxvm.org describes how to use V-disk for swap. I followed the instruction as outlined on RedHat 7.2, but failed when issuing dasdfmt command: I received the following message: dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasdb dasdfmt: Unsupported disk type /dev/dasdb is not an ECKD disk! This disk type is not supported! Does this procedure only work on SuSe? is there a way to make work for RedHat? Thanks Abdel. Gharzita Pace University [
