>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sienicki, Paul K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a little confused and want to ask to verify MDISK configuration for > CLIENT from pg 29 of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Start System for > System z. Installation Guide. > > The Linux Mdisks are 150 through 152. The 150 disk is only 50 cylinders. > This is the address 150 that is listed as the IPL volume but it is only > 50 cylinders. Is this really the case? As NOVSTARTs IPL volume 150 is > 3283.
Some people like to break /boot out into a separate partition, even on System z. It's not necessary, per se, since mainframe's don't have any BIOS limitations to work around. But, some people feel more comfortable with it, or want their mainframe systems to look more like their midrange ones. Please note, that the sample client directory entry is just that, a sample. It's not necessarily even a recommended layout, although I'm beginning to see people are taking it as gospel. (I just had another inquiry from someone who had a customer that thought they needed to use *exactly* the layout in the doc and wanted to know *exactly* how to lay out their file systems using it.) My personal preference is to give guests whole volumes as minidisks (1-END). Then, put two partitions on one of them. One to be used for the root file system, and the second to be given to LVM. Any other volumes are given one partition, and the whole thing given to LVM. If you want an automated way of doing this, look at http://linuxvm.org/Info/#autoinst for a script that will generate exactly that layout using one 3390-3 volume, as well as an extremely stripped down set of software packages. 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
