File mkdump.8 of Package s390-tools.34462
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36. .TH MKDUMP "8" "August 2011" "mkdump 2.0" "System Administration Utilities" .SH NAME mkdump \- Preparing disks for use as S/390 dump device. .SH SYNOPSIS .B mkdump [\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIDEVICE\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION mkdump 2.0.3 .PP Prepare one or more volumes for use as S/390 dump device. Supported devices are ECKD DASD and SCSI over zFCP disks, while multi\-volumes are limited to DASD. .PP Only whole disks can be used, no partitions! If the device is incompatible formatted/partioned, the script will refuse to install the dump record unless the \fB\-\-force\fR switch is given. .PP Disks which are in use or have mounted partitions will not be listed and can't be used. The mentioning of "dumpdevice" after a disk indicates that it is an already usable dump device. Additionally multi\-volume dump devices are indicated by the list of including DASD ids. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR display version information and exit .TP \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR debug mode, do not run programs which commit changes .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR be verbose and show command outputs .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR force overwrite of the disk .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\-dump\fR display dump disks .TP \fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-list\-dasd\fR display usable DASD disks (Device, Size, ID, Dump) .TP \fB\-Z\fR, \fB\-\-list\-zfcp\fR display usable SCSI over zFCP disks (Device, Size, ID, WWPN, LUN, Dump) .SH DIAGNOSTICS mkdump returns the following exit codes: .RS .IP 0 Normal (no errors or warnings detected) .IP 11 Invalid or unusable disk (fatal) .IP 12 Incompatible formatting/partitioning, can be corrected with --force .IP 13 Missing support programs .IP 14 Bad command line parameters .IP 15 Access problem .IP other Support program failed .SH AUTHOR Written by Tim Hardeck <thardeck@suse.de>. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs on https://bugzilla.novell.com/ .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH License GPLv2 or (at your option) any later version. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
