On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:58, dlangschied wrote: > 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
first guess: You did not create a partition what does fdisk -l /dev/hda return? If there is no hda12 you will need to use fdisk or some other disk partition tool to create the partition of the size and type you want and then mkfs it to create the filesystem. be very careful with fdisk you can delete partitions with it. HTH Bret > 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 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
