On Monday, 11/03/2014 at 02:16 EST, "Shedlock, George" <[email protected]> wrote: > When we create the guest we format and label the volumes using ICKDSF. > > According to the Cookbook one of the first steps in making the disk available > to zLinux is to run a dasdfmt command against the disk. > > According to ?Device Drivers, Features, and Commands on Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 7?, dasdfmt has an option ?k
There's no need to format a volume twice. If you're going to format a volume dasdfmt, there's no need to use ICKDSF. > -k or --keep_volser > keeps the volume serial number when writing the volume label (see VOLSER). > Keeping the volume serial number is useful, for example, if the volume serial > number was written with a z/VM tool and should not be overwritten. > > However, whenever we try to run dasdfmt with that option we get the following > error > > [root@dcvml29 ~]# dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -v -k -f /dev/dasdf > dasdfmt: VOLSER not found on device /dev/dasdf Sounds like your minidisk is 1-END instead of 0-END and so doesn't see a volser on the minidisk. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
