XFS resizing & Win2k

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/29/2003 2:40 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Brad De Vries wrote:
> 
>>--- Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>>
>>>I've painted myself into a corner where i need/want
>>>to turn a Linux only
>>>box into a dual boot box with Win2k.  Right now, the
>>>box (which is a
>>>laptop) has just RH9 (XFS) installed, and occupying
>>>the entire disk as
>>>follows:
>>>hda1  /boot
>>>hda2  SWAP
>>>hda3 /
>>>
>>>What I need to do is resize hda3 so that its about 5
>>>GB smaller, so that i
>>>can create a hda4 to install Win2k on.  The problem
>>>here is that
>>>xfs_growfs doesn't appear to support shrinking
>>>partitions, just growing
>>>them.  Is shrinking an XFS partition even possible?
>>>If so, how?
>>>
>>>thanks!
>>
>>If you find that it's a dump/load process, you might
>>want to look at a vmware installation.  I used it
>>about a year ago and it seemed to work fine for me.  I
>>think there is still an evaluation version which is
>>good for 30 days.
>>
>>http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/wkst_eval_login.jsp
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, i already tried that route.  my wife loves the game, Roller
> Coaster Tycoon 2 (note the two, the first release actually does run with
> wine & vmware), and it requires DirectDraw support that
> just won't work in VMware.  I also tried with wine, and ran into other
> problems.  As much as I hate it, Win2k seems to be the only solution.
> thanks though.
> 

S'posed to work with Transgaming's WineX...
http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=676

IIRC, WineX's CVS code is available for download, but it might be worth 
a donation to Transgaming, if only to avoid having to soil your PC with 
Win2K...

Regards,
Tim