On Wednesday, 09/10/2008 at 10:18 EDT, Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to a few Linux guests and was given a new volume to allocate the new > guests minidisks on this volume. > > Volume has 32K tracks and I'm allocating a few minidisk to the guests of 3338 > cylinders on this volume. > > I'm first doing a CPFMTXA format and labeling the disk accordingly. > > The directory is setup with the new guest and minidisk statements accordingly. > > Is there anything special I have to do to the minidisk to make the usable to > Linux and before I turn over the new guests to the Linux people?
No. It is not necessary to CPFMTXA cylinders that will be used by guests unless there is sensitive residual data on the volume that needs to be erased *before* the directory is updated and the guest gets access to the minidisk. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
