Greetings;
Don't know about SuSE, but mkswap and swapon works just fine
on my TurboLinux 2.2.16 kernel. Maybe with 2.2.x you could
dasdfmt a FBA device even though it wasn't necessary,
or it just ignored you silently!
Good Luck!
Dennis
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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
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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
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