Greetings Mark, I followed the process documented below to achieve my desired results. The interesting side effect is that I am able to restore the /etc/fstab to it's original form. I updated /etc/fstab after the kernel updates but it may also work before the kernel updates. It then may also work without the grub-2install. If I have time this afternoon I will try this procedure.
cio_ignore -r 0.0.0604 chccwdev -e 0.0.0604 lsdasd - check dasd location dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/dasdb -p -y fdasd -sa /dev/dasdb Yast - make device persistent reboot btrfs device add /dev/dasda1 / btrfs filesystem resize max / Update kernel parameters - !0.0.0604 and dasd=0604 Update /etc/fstab UUID=b273239f-1943-4607-ad44-2e007624ee1b / btrfs device=/dev/dasda1,device=/dev/dasdb3 0 0 grub2-mkconfig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/