And actually, if you must have a write link, you should only specify M, not MR. If some other user has a write link already, MR will give you a read link, which won't let you do what you need to do and can cause you other confusion when you get errors trying to write on the disk. So specify M, and if you can't get the disk linked R/W, then it will fail, and you will see in the error message what other user has the disk already linked R/W.
I frequently see VM directory entries for Linux machines with the link modes of the disks specified as MR instead of M. I'd rather have Linux completely fail to start up if some other userid has one or more of its disks linked R/W than to start up with a disk linked read only and get a lot of errors, later failures, etc. On 2/23/06, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a) the MR is unnecessary, and possibly dangerous. Omitting a link > > mode will give the user whatever was defined as the default mode in > > the directory, which might possibly have been R/O. > > In general, yes, but in the specific case, he was planning on writing on > the disks, so wanted to be specific. > -- Bruce Hayden IBM Global Services System z Linux Endicott, NY
