CPFMTXA can do that cylinder range formatting, but I don't know if Linux will then allow you to do the resize2fs to enlarge the filesystem control
blocks. It would be worth a try on a TEST MINIDISK. /Tom Kern On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:28:49 -0700, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote : >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 bloc ks >x'00's and be almost done with it. Then LINUX could expand the filesyste m >and away we go. > >At least it sounds simple. > > > >On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Thomas Kern <tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com> wro te: > >> 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> wr ote: >> >> >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 a nd >> >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 >> > >> >
