Mounting partition from one drive to another driver (bind?)

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So my Debian Lenny is installed on /dev/sda1 (ext3 formatted). My VMware Virtual Machines are stored at the following locations on /dev/sda1

 

# ls -l /var/lib/vmware/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2009-10-22 16:35 hostd
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2010-01-25 12:21 Virtual Machines
#

 

I am running out of space on my sda1 partition and hence I would like to use another empty ext3 partition (/dev/sda5) to store my Virtual Machine. Here is what I am thinking to do:

 

1. Copy all the stuff from ls -l /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines onto the /dev/sda6 parition.

 

2. Put the following in my /etc/fstab on /dev/sda1:

/dev/sda6      /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines none bind 0 0

 

Just wanted to seek some opinions from experts on the above solution. Also will the space in "Virtual Machine" will be acceptable by fstab.

 

Could I have just used:

/dev/sda6      /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1

 

in my fstab?

 

Thanks in advance.