So the question remains, why doesn't SLES8 not recognize the vdisk swap that is defined, CMS formatted and RESERVEd the same way as it was for SLES7?
On Friday 21 March 2003 02:48 pm, you wrote: > > Dave Jones of Sine Nomine has written an EXEC that will do > > just what you want, in the guest's CMS startup phase: > > http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/SWAPGEN.EXEC > > Mr. Nit Picky sez that Jones' EXEC does exactly the right thing. > There is no reason to CMS FORMAT an FBA volume. Unless you're > using the RESERVED method (which you don't need for FBA) > the only thing CMS FORMAT does for Linux is pre-allocate 4K blocks. > > With FBA the blocks are 512 bytes and are always allocated, > so there is no need for the "low level format" function. > So Jones' EXEC wisely skips FORMAT and goes directly to the > heart of the problem: put a swap signature on the media. > > -- RMT -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
