[Info-vax] Valid disk types for SIMH?

[Galen]

> ls -l  provides the file size in terms of number of bytes used. Not sure
> which incantation of ls s needed to get allocated blocks.
>
> when you INIT, i believe that by default, it places some of the
> structures in the middle of the disk.
>
> So the container file of say 1 gig would have some structure probably
> written at the start and its middle, but nothing after. So the file
> system would think the logical end of file is the highest byte written,
> hence near the middle of the disk.

If you have a simh Vax already running VMS you could use it to pre-
initialize a disk volume (and its underlying Mac OS X disk file) with /
INDEX=END. That would put INDEXF.SYS at the logical end of the disk,
forcing OS X to extend the Mac file to the size you specified in your
simh SET command.