s390x: Add force flag for dasd style partition label detection
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Quoted 3 lines · Carsten Otte
Quoted 1 line · Alexander Graf
Could you please tell me some way to format a dasd device so that it has a blocks/track value different from 12? Also, do people actually do this?
That's easy: use a different blocksize than 4096 bytes with dasdfmt.
Ah, I see. Do people do that?
Also, we could just pass the geometry to the force functions as well. That way we could convert things on the fly and keep everything dynamic.
I assume the best approach here would be to specify the blocksize rather than blocks/track value in the command line, as that's what users remember (at least me). What's the correlation between blocks/track and blocksize? Is it just blocks/track * 341? Or is it 1 << blocks/track?
Alex