MKDUMP(8)

📦 version 2.44.1, in opensuse-leap 16.0

🎀 MKDUMP(8) — the S/390 dump device glow-up guide 🎀

okay bestie, so this is the mkdump manual page, and honestly? It's giving "system administration but make it cute." You're on S/390 (yes, the mainframe, she's iconic), and you need to prep some disks so they can hold dumps. Let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mkdump — the girl whose whole job is preparing disks for use as an S/390 dump device. That's it, that's the gig 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mkdump [OPTIONS] [DEVICE]...

so like... options first, then the devices, and you can throw multiple devices at her, she can handle it 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

mkdump 2.0.3 — clock the version, bestie, we're on 2.0.3 ✨

What she does: prepare one or more volumes for use as an S/390 dump device. Supported devices are ECKD DASD and SCSI over zFCP disks — but heads up, multi-volumes are limited to DASD. No cap, that's just how it is 🌈

⚠️ Only whole disks can be used, no partitions! Not kidding, not exaggerating. If the device is incompatible formatted/partitioned, the script will refuse to install the dump record unless you pass the --force switch. So like... respect the boundary 💀

Disks which are in use or have mounted partitions will not be listed and can't be used. Read that again. They're not invited to the party 🚫

Also, iykyk: the mentioning of "dumpdevice" after a disk indicates that it is an already usable dump device. And multi-volume dump devices are indicated by the list of including DASD ids ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. The classic, the icon, the one you run first 🥰
  • -V, --version — display version information and exit. Get the receipts 🧾
  • -d, --debug — debug mode, do not run programs which commit changes. It's the dress rehearsal, not the show 👑
  • -v, --verbose — be verbose and show command outputs. She'll tell you everything, fr fr 🗣️
  • -f, --force — force overwrite of the disk. Use responsibly, this one's spicy 🔥
  • -l, --list-dump — display dump disks 🌸
  • -D, --list-dasd — display usable DASD disks (Device, Size, ID, Dump) 💖
  • -Z, --list-zfcp — display usable SCSI over zFCP disks (Device, Size, ID, WWPN, LUN, Dump) ⭐

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

mkdump returns the following exit codes — memorize these, they're your group chat read receipts:

  • 0 — Normal (no errors or warnings detected). She ate and left no crumbs ✨
  • 11 — Invalid or unusable disk (fatal) 💀
  • 12 — Incompatible formatting/partitioning, can be corrected with --force. See? Fixable 🫶
  • 13 — Missing support programs 😭
  • 14 — Bad command line parameters 🙈
  • 15 — Access problem 🔒
  • other — Support program failed. Not her fault bestie, the support program fumbled 💅

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Written by Tim Hardeck <thardeck@suse.de>. King behavior, honestly 👑

🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

Report bugs on https://bugzilla.novell.com/ — go tell them, they wanna know 💌

Copyright © 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH License GPLv2 or (at your option) any later version. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Read it, know it, live it 🌈

okay so that's the whole page!! mkdump, version 2.0, dated August 2011 — and yes the copyright says 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH while the version footer says mkdump 2.0 even though the description screams 2.0.3, and we're not gonna question her, she's a main character with layers 💅✨ ily, go dump some disks 🫶💖

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