You are to easy to satisfy. I would like an option which says to use it all and tell me what was used. That way I only have to do the dsmfmt once.
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Roger Deschner wrote: > 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."======== >
