Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:11:03 -0400 (EDT), Florian Bilek wrote: Yes, here is the result Model: IBM S390 DASD drive (dasd) Disk /dev/dasdl: 2462MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: dasd Number Start End SizeFile system Flags 1 98.3kB 1650MB

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear Stephen, Unfortunately it doesn't work either and gives the same result: # parted GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/dcssblk0 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) select /dev/dasdl Using /dev/dasdl (parted) resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB Error: File system has an

Re: SAS

2012-03-30 Thread Aria Bamdad
Thanks for this link. I was not aware of WPS. We will seriously take a look at this product. Although R is an excellent alternative as David Boyes suggested, it is so only from a statistical analysis point of view. When it comes to data management and manipulation, it is not really a good

cio_ignore

2012-03-30 Thread Lee Stewart
Hi all, I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have thousands of devices that have nothing to do with the Linux instance. But in a virtual machine I only give it the devices I want it to have in the first

init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Lee Stewart
Hi all, I have a customer running RH 6.2 and after a minor change (adding a DASD), the system now boots without any noticeable error on the console or in the logs, but the boot stops short of issuing the login prompt on the console.. All the other services are up and running (everything for

Re: SAS

2012-03-30 Thread David Boyes
Thanks for this link. I was not aware of WPS. We will seriously take a look at this product. Wow. That does look cool. Perhaps the availability of WPS for Linux on System z will be a motivation for SAS to provide the same offering. There are SAS guys on this list. Time to kick your

Re: init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Lee. I'm sure you have already thought of this, but did the customer update the DASD address list in /etc/modprobe.conf file and run mkinitrd and zipl afterwards? DJ On 3/30/2012 10:24 AM, Lee Stewart wrote: Hi all, I have a customer running RH 6.2 and after a minor change (adding a

Re: SAS

2012-03-30 Thread Henry Schaffer
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Aria Bamdad a...@bsc.gwu.edu wrote: Thanks for this link.  I was not aware of WPS.  We will seriously take a look at this product. Although R is an excellent alternative as David Boyes suggested, it is so only from a statistical analysis point of view.  When

Re: init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Lee Stewart
Kind of There is no more modprobe.conf, it's dasd.conf... And all the disks and filesystems are there like they should be. And everything in rc3.d is started and running. Lee On 3/30/2012 10:14 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Hi, Lee. I'm sure you have already thought of this, but did the

Looking for a few good stories...

2012-03-30 Thread Martha McConaghy
Once again, we are in the midst of putting together a slate of speakers and presentations for the upcoming SHARE conference this summer in Anaheim, CA USA. (Please see http://share.org for details.) One thing that we have learned is that people really want to hear from other folks like

Re: cio_ignore

2012-03-30 Thread Sebastian Ott
Lee, On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Lee Stewart wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have thousands of devices that have nothing to do with the Linux instance. But in a virtual machine I only

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Post
On 3/30/2012 at 07:28 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: (parted) resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB ext2 Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled. (parted) Try issuing the command again, this time without ext2 specified at the end. i.e. resize 1 98.3kb 2462MB

Re: cio_ignore

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Post
On 3/30/2012 at 11:31 AM, Lee Stewart lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have thousands of devices that have nothing to do with the Linux instance. But in

Re: init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Post
On 3/30/2012 at 11:24 AM, Lee Stewart lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I have a customer running RH 6.2 and after a minor change (adding a DASD), the system now boots without any noticeable error on the console or in the logs, but the boot stops short of issuing the login prompt on

Re: cio_ignore

2012-03-30 Thread Lee Stewart
cio_ignore=all,!009 appears to be the default, at least on RH 6.2... Certainly not added by us... Lee On 3/30/2012 10:59 AM, Sebastian Ott wrote: Lee, On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Lee Stewart wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see

Re: init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Dave Jones
grasping at straws here, Leewhat's in the inittab file? On 3/30/2012 11:48 AM, Lee Stewart wrote: Kind of There is no more modprobe.conf, it's dasd.conf... And all the disks and filesystems are there like they should be. And everything in rc3.d is started and running. Lee On 3/30/2012

Re: init not completing

2012-03-30 Thread Lee Stewart
Nothing in /var/log that I can see.. Next chance I can access the customer system I'll look at inittab... Thanks, Lee On 3/30/2012 11:35 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 3/30/2012 at 11:24 AM, Lee Stewartlstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I have a customer running RH 6.2 and after a minor change

Re: Extending a DASD partition

2012-03-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:45:17 -0400 (EDT), Florian Bilek wrote: Unfortunately it doesn't work either and gives the same result: # parted GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/dcssblk0 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) select /dev/dasdl Using /dev/dasdl (parted)