FVN: fix volume name

Description

"Fix volume names." Used to change the name of a volume; new name may even be the same as a presently-mounted volume.

Categories

System Operation
Disk Management

Related files

FVN: Object file for utility.

User Use to change the name of a volume or mount a volume with a name identical to another volume.

The OPTIONS screen prompts for the new volume name and device number; it can also work with volumes already mounted. If the selected name is a duplicate of a currently-mounted volume, FVN dismounts the newly-mounted volume after the rename.

Programmer Instructions

FVN consists of a single GETPARM screen:

OPTIONS     Press (RETURN) to continue, PF(16) to exit the
            program.

  DEVICE    (blank)     The device number of the drive where
                        the disk to be renamed will be
                        mounted.

  NEWNAME   (blank)     Any valid volume name.

Example of use

Of use whenever disks that have been named the same must be mounted simultaneously. This could be a result of a system problem requiring a prior disk copy to be mounted, or as a part of a backup scheme using removable disks where the new copy of becomes the production disk and must be renamed. Similar in purpose and operation to GETNAME.

Comments

Mount screen suppression is similar to the NODISP option from MOUNT; e.g. mount messages to the user are suppressed but an operator message is posted requesting the mount or dismount.

Program bug: be sure to enter leading zeros on the DEVICE field of the OPTION screen; the program will recognize '032' but not '32 '.