VMware shared folder

[Joseph Kubik]

When you say "shared folder" are you talking about the Vmware
"special" hgfs folder? Or, is this a real partition that both the Host
and Guest OS are using at the same time?
-Joseph-

On 8/16/05, Steve <bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  I hope this isn't OT, but I have a question about running VMware in Ubuntu.
>  
>  After setting up VMware in Ubuntu, I installed winxp as the guest OS,
> allocating the default 4GB and placed it on a FAT32 partition. Everything
> works great so far.
>  
>  I created a folder on this FAT32 partition and chose it as my shared folder
> in VMware. I am able to access it within VMware/winxp. All is fine so far.
>  
>  My problem is that in the guest OS (winxp) it says that there is only 3.5GB
> free in this shared folder, even though I know that the drive has over 10GB
> free. Is there a setting somewhere that denotes the size of the shared
> folder in VMware? I could not find any. Is it an idiosyncrasy of the
> filesystem it is on (FAT32)? Is it a limitation of VMware?
>  
>  Any help would be appreciated!
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  -Steve.
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