[wellylug] Xandros

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:23, Steve Macdonald wrote:

> One other thing (Sorry about all the questions guys) I let Xandros
> partition the drive for me but the driveis to small, what would be the
> best way for me to increase the size of the partition (what idiot proof
> software) I have a Windows XP drive, Linux Drive and a shared drive that
> I want to reduce to increase the size of the linux drive.

First, you need to clarify something for us.  When you are writing 'drive' 
above, do you mean an actual physically separate piece of hardware, or are 
you speaking of one section out of several all on one piece of hardware?

How many distinct physical drives are involved in your description above?

In any case, it's wise to use native partitioning tools to work with 
partitions.  I have both success and failure in the past using PartitionMagic 
to work on redistributing space between Windows & Linux filesystems.

But we need an unambiguous description of your physical drives and partitions 
on those drives before we can give save advice.   Make sure to include what 
filesystem each is ("this is Windows D: drive when I'm running XP" etc.).


> I can access 
> the other 2 drives but from programs like itunes and photoshop I cant as
> it comes up with some crazy "fake c drive" due to it running through
> crossover. IT will not let me browse the other two drives which is where
> all my music and pictures are stored.

CrossOver is WINE.  WINE does indeed install it's own fake-o windows folder 
where it keeps it's information & drivers.  Because of Windows, that is the 
C: drive generally, and WINE keeps that nomenclature.

You'll need to add another "drive letter" so Windows programs run in WINE can 
access other partitions.

But tell us more clearly about your setup first.

Regards,
Bret
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