Is there a reason why you create 3 partitions on one dasd? I would define 3 minidisks to VM on that one DASD or different ones and format each disk individually with one partition per disk. These can be freely moved to other volumes without any care.
Aria > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 2:33 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Renaming a volume > > Is there a way to rename a volume? I'm testing a DR scenario. I've > formatted a volume under ZM as UPST01, attached it to Linux (Redhat 5) > and did > > lsdasd > 0.0.0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize 4096, > 1802880 blocks, 7042 MB > 0.0.2201(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : n/f > > The: > dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -d cdl -f /dev/dasdb -l UPST01 > > Now I need to build 3 partitions so I created > fdasdb.conf > [2,2134] > [2135,12481] > [12482,last] > > and issued > fdasd -c /fdasdb.conf /dev/dasdb > > > This all worked fine but now the volume is labeled 0x2202. The fdasd > command will not let you keep the volser unless you do the entire > volume using -a. So OK, is there a better way or can I just simply > rename it back to UPST01 somehow? > > Bobby Bauer > Center for Information Technology > National Institutes of Health > Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
