Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f6HLYBe03476 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:34:11 -0700 Received: from chaos.egr.duke.edu (chaos.egr.duke.edu [152.3.195.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6HLYAV03456 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:34:10 -0700 Received: from localhost (jlb@localhost) by chaos.egr.duke.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6HLXqn30748; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:33:52 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: chaos.egr.duke.edu: jlb owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:33:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Baker-LePain X-X-Sender: To: "Adam H. Pendleton" cc: Subject: Re: Vmware and XFS In-Reply-To: <005c01c10f06$e4af5200$650aa8c0@corbettmsc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 at 5:24pm, Adam H. Pendleton wrote > I am wondering now that I have gone to XFS, if it is possible to extend a > guest operating system partition in Vmware past the traditional 32-bit (2GB) > limitation. If so, how? > The 2GB limit doesn't exist in ext2 either -- it was there due to limitations in glibc and some other bits. Most recent distros include large file support. To take advantage of this, an applications needs to compiled with the proper flags. And for that, of course, you'll need to talk to VMware. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University