Tom, Yea that would work too. It just seems so simple to be able to format a cylinder range (either in LINUX or CMS) ie FORMAT A10 4K cyl 100:199.. It would just write 4K blocks x'00's and be almost done with it. Then LINUX could expand the filesystem and away we go.
At least it sounds simple. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Kern <tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > disk? > > > >Thanks > > >
