Any new solution for toporesize for Vista?

[OgreNaut]

Hi,

I've just successfully installed Gentoo using coLinux on a Vista Ultimate/Core 2 Duo box (along with all the psycho networking that goes with coLinux)

The only problem is that it seems toporesize is incompatible with Vista. Toporesize is a program written to resize the ext2 and ext3 partition files that coLinux uses.

I know this isn't a coLinux forum, but does anyone know of any other program that is a toporesize equivalent?

Thanks.

[Scan-C]

parted can resize nearly any filesystem. it has a nice gui named gparted.

[OgreNaut]

Right, and I've used Gparted extensively, but this filesystem is an actual file on a windows filesystem. I'm running coLinux, so if I were to boot from a Gparted Live disc, the filesystem would be unavailable because its just a file within an NTFS filesystem.

To get around the fact that I don't think there will ever be a comparable tool like toporesize for Vista, I've just installed coLinux/Gentoo Delux on my XP partition instead.

NOW, I'm getting issues with the Gentoo boot hanging at "* Starting local ... [ ok ]". I emerged mirrorselect, ran emerge --sync, then emerged sudo, tightvnc, and superadduser. Now the system hangs at "Starting local..."

Any ideas? Everything was going fine until I started emerging.

How would I recover? Run another Gentoo filesystem image with coLinux, mount the hanging system to inspect the problems? Where should I start looking for issues involving "Starting local"?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm gonna stick this in a new thread. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623837.html

[smitty_one_each]

Have you ensured you have all of the right (NTFS, I assume) modules available in your kernel at boot time?
Your exact partitioning scheme isn't clear, but the kernel needs to have all of the right drivers compiled in or modprobe'd from the initramfs before the boot can proceed normally.
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