Er, just out of curiosity, if you're going to fill up the disk, why not just use Raw LVs?
Alex Paschal Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail -----Original Message----- From: Roger Deschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Answer: dsmfmt file size I posted questions last March about how to calculate the maximum file size to specify on dsmfmt if you want to fill the entire disk up with the database/log/filepool extent you are allocating. The only answer I got then involved voodoo incantations, and magical formulas that didn't work, involving inode settings in the filesystem. Now I know the answer. It's easy: 1. Be on ITSM Server Version 5.1 or later. This was new in 5.1. 2. Overestimate and issue the command. It is important to overestimate, not underestimate. 3. You'll get an error message from dsmfmt saying you are asking for too much. What is new, and completely WONDERFUL, is that this error message now tells you exactly how big you can specify. Plug that number in and run it again. (TIP: The ls -l command is a progress indicator for dsmfmt.) Thank you, whoever at IBM did this! If you have read my earlier post today, you should know that this feature is saving me an ENORMOUS amount of time - today! Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========An optimist is someone who says a glass is half full.========== ===A pessimist says it's half empty. An engineering consultant says,==== ========"Looks like you've got twice as much glass as you need."========
