I did notice something odd when i perofromed fdisk -l. The extended file systems shows a system of Win95 Ext'd (LBA). Why is this showing Windows? Initially this laptop was a Windows XP machine, but I thought that I was removing this when I reformatted the device for hda1-11. Is there something wrong here that I am going to have to correct?
Sincerely, David Langschied Langschied Consulting Services 25644 Mackinac Roseville, MI 48066 Phone: (586)777-7542 Cell: (248)789-8493 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Making a new files system. > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
