The list is a little quiet so I thought I would ask this. It takes about 42 minutes here to dasdfmt a volume with 65519 cylinders on it. It takes about 18 minutes to dd an already formatted volume over to a new one. It also takes about 19 minutes to fill it up with zeros by cat /dev/zero to it.
Why does dasdfmt take so long? Marcy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
