Exactly .. but now is that mdisk recomped? There is nothing set aside for an IPL area. What would be the point to do it intentionally? Can anyone see a reason to do it?
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu]on Behalf Of Mike Harding Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:26 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How Can I Tell if this Disk for Formatted with the RECOMP Option? If I were going to create such a creature, I'd format a 100-cyl minidisk, recomp it to 50 cyls, then ddr it to a 50-cyl mdisk, or change the directory allocation of the existing one to 50 cyls. Really easy. The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 02/19/2009 02:15:42 PM: > But q v dasd shows 50 cyl .. it has nothing to do with recomp.. > I am messing around and can't get the same results.. > I define a 50 cyl mdisk and 'format 100 q 50 (recomp' it does the > format and recomp to 50 cyl which equals no recomp.. > > You got my curiosity going that is all. >
