Hi all!
I have some 22Gb of space that I am not using.  I have set this disk space
aside to use for virtual machines.  I have recently purchased VM Ware 4.0
and am now ready to allocate some of this space to a Windows XP Home
workstation as a VM on my Linux server (8.0).  I have tried to use mkfs, but
I am stumbling on the issue of the filesys and the  [blocks].

I currently have files systems up to /dev/hda11.  As I have stated above, I
have 22Gb of space, so want to use 5Gb for the file system.

Form the command line I entered:

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda12 5000000

I get "Filesystem larger than apparent filesystem size".

What does this mean?  I should have 22Gb (in 1-K blocks?), which would mean
I have 22000000 blocks.  This is my first attempt at creating a new
filesystem in Linux.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Also, anyone who knows of any "gotchyas" on VMWare for Linux, I would
appreciate any help to be offered.  I am still a little fuzzy on how I am
going to get all of this to work.  I want to have my Linux running my
database and apps.  I want to be able to launch my web browser from my
Windows XP VM and make the connection to the application on Linux.  If all
of this goes according to plan, this will be a great benifit to me.  I will
be able to develop according to what the end user will see.  Again, any
advice will be greatly appreciated.


Sincerely,

David Langschied
Langschied Consulting Services
25644 Mackinac
Roseville, MI 48066

Phone:  (586)777-7542
Cell:      (248)789-8493
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