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     rogerd AT uic DOT 
> edu
> =========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."========
>