Partition, format, and mount filesystems Add a third virtual hard drive to the machine: Shutdown the server Enter the VMWare Server Console as the VM Creator account Right Click the VM > Settings On bottom left, click Add Enter configuration wizard Select Hard Disk Select SCSI Determine size (4 GB, 4096 MB) Do not select pre-allocation Do not select to split into multiple files Boot the machine Verify the new hard disk exists in the system: fdisk -l Partition the new hard disk into equal halves: fdisk /dev/sdc Select n Select p Select 1 Select 1 Select half of the number printed or a value in Megabytes: 2048M Select n Select p Select 2 Select default Select maximum value printed Select w to write the partition table Format the partitions: First partition will be formatted to XFS: Download XFS: yum install binutils -y yum install xfsprogs yum-kmod kmod-xfs-xen mkdir /xfspart mkfs.xfs -l /xfspart /dev/sdc1 Second partition will be formatted to ext3: mkdir /ext3part mkfs.ext3 /ext3part /dev/sdc2 Mount the partitions: mount /dev/sdc1 /xfspart mount /dev/sdc2 /ext3part Mount on boot by adding to fstab: nano /etc/fstab Add lines: /dev/sdc1 /xfspart xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc2 /ext3part ext3 defaults 0 0