Hi, new to osx and vmware in general, i have 10.5.6 running and winXP running in vmware fusion. The box started off with only one drive and one partition, I have recently added a second 1tb drive sliced in two partitions in osx, I then added and formatted one partition in vmware which is recognozed by winXP and reads the data stored and its correct values, but for some reason when I try add data to the new vmware partition osx reads it as data being added to the / partition (or first drive) and shows no data being stored on that disk, though winxp 16.7gb used.

in osx
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s2 233Gi 229Gi 3.0Gi 99% /
devfs 107Ki 107Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home
/dev/disk2 5.0Gi 5.0Gi 0Bi 100% /Volumes/CPE_LVL2
/dev/disk0s2 466Gi 154Mi 466Gi 1% /Volumes/backup1 <--partition being used in vmware
/dev/disk0s3 465Gi 154Mi 465Gi 1% /Volumes/Untitled 2

in vmware winXP

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>dir J:
Volume in drive J is New Volume
Volume Serial Number is 50A2-F51A

170 File(s) 16,427,614,258 bytes
4 Dir(s) 463,037,800,448 bytes free

do I need to mount things differently?

You cannot share partitions like that you run the risk of corrupting everything. A raw partition can either be assigned to a VM or the host not both at the same time. Stop now before you corrupt your entire setup. Instead use Shared Folders or network share.

My intentions were to have it assigned only for VM, what am I doing wrong, this is a new setup for me, thanks.