Reducing an existing Linux partition for Windows use....

[Dan Lund]

So parted would be a good tool to use?  okay, I'll check it out.

The DRM and other things are a whole other world that I am not even
going to worry about.  I just want to play the game.  The rest of the
computing is on Linux.

Thanks,
Dan Lund
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it
to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to
act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have
free scope.
-Niccolo Machiavelli



On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 1:08 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 13. Sep, 2008 schwätzte Dan Lund so:
>
> moin moin Dan,
>
>> Okay, I'm pulling the pistol away from my head now, but I'll need to
>> use Windows on my desktop in order to play Spore now that it is
>
> Spore looks really, really cool. The DRM crap looks really, really evil.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/spore_drm_amazon_effect/
> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/07/amazon-reviewers-clo.html
>
> Wow, they really got some people to post against them.
>
> 5 star:         3%       (73)
> 4 star:         2%       (50)
> 3 star:         0%       (21)
> 2 star:         2%       (57)
> 1 star:         90%      (2,018)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000FKBCX4/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt/002-5356881-7975207?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
>
> Hmm, that negative review makes it sound like they dropped out some of the
> cool features as well :(.
>
>> finally out.  The problem is, it's a Linux box and has been ever since
>> it's purchase.
>>
>> I have CentOS (free RHEL clone), and what I'm looking to do is
>> throttle down the size of main partition to use it for Windows.
>> My question is, what is the easiest method to do this nowadays?  I'm
>> not terribly worried about losing the MBR, since I can boot up with CD
>> and run grub to make it boot in the proper way again.
>> I haven't done something like this since.. geez.. 2001 maybe?  My
>> memories totally shot.
>
> Make sure you have free space on the partition you're wanting to shrink,
> then resize the filesystem to be smaller and then resize the partition to
> be smaller.
>
> Google for whatever filesystem type you have with resize and shrink and
> you should come up with step by step instructions.
>
> GNU parted can resize ext2, ext3, linux-swap and reiserfs in addition to
> resizing the partition.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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