Yeung, Robert wrote: > Thank you Carsten for the response, The guestvol/basevol notes > http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/basevol.html (by William Scully > 28Jan2004) advises that changing /etc/zipl.conf in this way is not > possible so I haven't tried it. If I do change it in that way on the > basevol (and zipl) can you suggest an easy way to change it back when I > need to write to the basevol? You can modify the ro attribute on-the-fly: echo 0 >/sys/bus/ccw/drivers/dasd-eckd/<device>/readonly makes the volume r+w echo 1 >(same as above) makes the volume readonly again --
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