Martha specifically indicated that she had CMS formatted the disk, which renders it with uniform 4k blocks, not the "strange" first cylinder laid down by CDL.
I quite agree: if using CDL, then DO NOT try to use the first cyl for arbitrary data. But I would take it further and say don't use CDL unless you explictly need to interact with z/OS via that disk. -- R; ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09/21/2007 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suse disk frustration >>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:56 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Skip the "partitioning" game. Put the filesystem on /dev/dasdd instead of > /dev/dasdd1 and mount that. (be sure all this matches /etc/fstab, of course) -snip- Since the IBM developers forcefully recommend _against_ doing this, I do also. I have personally experienced "strange results" when I had a CDL formatted disk, with no partitions defined. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
