As they are memory based disk devices, they are transient. When the 'owning' virtual machine logs off the devices are destroyed.
They can easily be recreated with the SWAPGEN utility. On 10/05/2011 02:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote:
Why do my swap disks go away when the zvm is ipl'ed? They are defined in the USER DIRECTORY, they are then created on each Linux box as swap drives through partitioning, and exist in the fstab as swap disks. After a recent IPL, I had to re partition each drive... David M. Dean Information Systems BlueCross BlueShield Tennnessee ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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