Rob, thanks, but I did define it in linux as a swap file, although I did it through YAST not mkswap. You are correct the error shows as a "lost" swap signature, which I guess is based on zeroing out the memory, so how do I automate this. I don't want to redefine these each time.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VDISK Swap On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do my swap disks go away when the zvm is ipl'ed? They are defined in the > USER DIRECTORY, they are then created on each Linux box as swap drives > through partitioning, and exist in the fstab as swap disks. After a recent > IPL, I had to re partition each drive... You get fresh zeroes when you define the VDISK. That means they don't have the 'swap signature' that lets Linux recognize it as a swap disk. You can format them as swap disk with CMS tools (eg SWAPGEN) or do it in Linux with 'mkswap' Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
