Mounting a partition

[montgomj]

I am new to Linux, so excuse my ignorance.

I am using Suse ent 1o and am trying to add more hd space to my system.

My original SCSI drive is partitioned into swap ( only 2 GB) with the remaining <300 GB to date mounted to /

I am temporarilty adding an external USB SATA drive to the system.
I have used partitioner and allocated 32 mg to swap and am trying to allocate the remainder to a directory used to store virtual machines. /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines .Yes it has a space and no I didn't create it, but it can't be changed at this point

One problem is in Partitioner where I can't enter a mount point with a space in it. If I use /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\040/Machines... it actually creates that directory. I umount then deleted that directory.

I created a mount to /var/lib/Virtual then I edited the fstab entry to point to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\040/Machines , saved then issued a mount -a

Now when I browse to the directory its empty and shows only free space from the new partition.
I remved the fsta entry and rebooted and my VM location is back.

How can I add space for that directory?

On top of this when I try to start any of my VM's from the VMware server 2.0 webui I receive the following error:

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.


Thank you





The other problem is that if I create it in Partitioner, then edit it in

[gogalthorp]

Instead of fighting it just mount the new partition as /vm and point VMware to that partition for the virtual machines. Just reinstall VMware it will ask where you want the VM to be stored.

To be honest you totally lost me on what you were trying to do above. Just use the KISS principle.

[montgomj]

simple. allocate more space to /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines

[D-cat]

I personally believe all static mounts should be in the /mnt directory (like /mnt/vm). Just /vm should work as well, no matter.

If some other location needs to be for the space to work, you can fake it with a symlink (ln -s)...

e.g. ln -s /mnt/vm /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines

Your mount command (and fstab entry) is simplified and VMware doesn't know any better. (Note, make sure all vm's are on the external drive first.)