There is always more than one way to get to the otherside of a mountain... I like to explore them all.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote: > >>> On 6/27/2011 at 05:23 PM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another solution I thought of would be to define the mdisk to VSE (I > suppose > > z/OS would work too) then I could use JCL to create a file appending the > > current LINUX partition and write a program (any language) to open the > file, > > write 4K records to the end. and close the file. > > > > Then go back to CMS for LXFMT to update the partition label.. and then > > to LINUX to expand the file system.. > > > > Safer than me calculating where to DDR copy to, but still a mess... > > And costing you far more of your time and machine resources than simply > copying the data. Don't do it. It's almost guaranteed to fail due to the > many layers of things you're trying to circumvent. (ICKDSF, dasdfmt, fdasd, > $DIETY knows what else I'm forgetting...) > > > Mark Post >
