"Howard Rifkind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be the quickest way to find out the size of a volume which > currently has minidisks allocated on it. > Cylinders?
What we do, because we have a very large number of real DASD to manage and keep track of, is to have a userid (SYSPACKS in our case) that is the placeholder for full pack minidisks on every real volume. We have a separate userid (PACKS is ours) that runs as a server and every day, or on demand, it will examine every DASD volume in the system and rebuild the directory entry for SYSPACKS based on the true size and label of the DASD volume (i.e. It tries to determine if the label has changed and, if it has, it tries to reattach it to SYSTEM). The rule is that the virtual address in SYSPACKS is the real address of the device. Quite apart form ensuring that you know the real size of any DASD volume, this has many other administration advantages (but you must exclude SYSPACKS * in DIRMAINT to prevent false overlaps being reported). Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
