I always did it the old-fashioned way: 1) allocate a new 200 cyl minidisk 2) format it in linux 3) use linux tools to copy data from old to new 4) mount new instead of old 5) remove old from linux configuration
/Tom Kern On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:35:46 -0700, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote : >I have a minidisk that LINUX uses. It is defined and formatted h use CDL >format. >The MDISK is 100 cylinders but I want to expand it to 200 cylinders. > >How can I write the proper format on cylinders 99 to 199? > >The only way I found was to create another mdisk with 200 cylinders and >format it, then DDR copy cyl 99 to 199 to my old disk. >There must be a better way. > >Does anyone know of a utility that will format specific cylinders on a d isk? > >Thanks >
