Large HD and VMWare's raw partitions

[subb3 at attglobal.net (Subba Rao)]

On  0, "Mark J. Dulcey" <mark at buttery.org> wrote:
> Subba Rao wrote:
> > 
> > One of my Linux system has a slave disk which is 20GB.
> > 
> > (0)root at myhost:/~# fdisk /dev/hdc
> > 
> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2646.
> > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> > and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> >    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> > 
> > Command (m for help)
> > 
> 
> If you really want to have MSDOS filesystems on your hard disk (which
> can be handy on a dual or multi-boot system), you have to use mkdosfs or
> DOS/Windows FORMAT to prepare them. This will wipe out any files that
> may already live in those partitions, so copy anything you care about to
> another partition first.
> 
> If you're using NT 4.0, you're stuck with FAT16 or NTFS (which Linux
> also supports) for this purpose. If you were dual-booting Windows 2000
> instead, you could also use FAT32 - but then you couldn't use NTFS,
> because the Linux NTFS code doesn't have write support for the latest
> version of NTFS (the one used by Windows 2000) yet.
> 

Thank you for replying.

What should the entries be in /etc/fstab? Are there any extra parameters that I
need to send to the kernel in /etc/lilo.conf?
 
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