[Info-vax] Valid disk types for SIMH?

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:54:14 +0100, Paul Sture wrote:

> Now do INIT/ERASE in VMS and full allocation is achieved:
> 
> $ ls -l dua3.dsk
> -rw-r--r--  1 simh  staff  5120000000 Nov 23 13:08 dua3.dsk $ ls -lh
> dua3.dsk
> -rw-r--r--  1 simh  staff   4.8G Nov 23 13:08 dua3.dsk

Does INIT/ERASE write nonzero values to every block? Don't have the 
manual handy.

If not, there will only be enough physical blocks allocated to cover the 
nonzero blocks (on some file systems at least).



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