> Well, the reason I'm doing it is because the 510RES has very little space > left. I almost couldn't get the maintenance to fit on the 500 disk and I > didn't have many cylinders left vacant. Since, on our previous release of > z/vm which was v4r3, we had a 430RES and a 430W01 and they were both CP > OWNED, I figured that was the way to go.
That was because in earlier releases of VM the starter system had page/spool space on those volumes. You can safely move the 500 disk to a non-CP owned volume without concern.