You can just do SWAPGEN - you don't need mkswap since SWAPGEN writes the swap signature. I think SWAPGEN will create the vdisks if they don't already exist or will use the one in place if it already exists..
Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <david_d...@bcbst.com>wrote: > Yes, vdisk. Do I have do I have to do both (swapgen and mkswap)? Or can I > just do cms swapgen and then have them (vdisks) defined in user dir? > > Anyway, thanks all for the direction, guess it is time to read... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Scott Rohling > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:11 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: VDISK Swap > > Are they defined as VDISK? If so - you have to mkswap them each boot.. or > use SWAPGEN to create them... if they are on DASD you shouldn't have to do > this after initial formatting - so not sure what's up. > > Scott Rohling > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <david_d...@bcbst.com > >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/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ----------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
