On Thursday, 05/29/2003 at 09:08 EST, "McKown, John"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My question is, since I am doing the "dasdfmt" under zLinux, can I get
away
> will only doing a CPVOLUME FORMAT of cylinder 0? Is there any need to
> CPVOLUME FORMAT the rest of the disk, which will be formatted again by
> zLinux? If not, that will save me a LOT of time!

Your suspicion is correct.  You only have to CPVOLUME FORMAT cylinder 0.
No point in formatting the dasd twice....

Alan Altmark
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM z/VM Development

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