Problem resizing partition

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Why do you prefer Cygwin or coLinux over using a virtual machine
> (assuming a reasonably powerful computer). Certainly, Cygwin has  
> come a

It isn't a preference; it's an alternative.  I don't always need a  
full-blown Linux install on my gaming box.  Sometimes I just need to  
be able to run a shell or Python script with a Unix-like environment  
and I want to run it on the Windows filesystem.  With a VM (which I  
have, by the way: Ubuntu 9.04 on VMware Server 2) I have to boot the  
VM, mount the drive if it isn't already, and shut it all down again  
when I'm done.  That's overkill for a simple find/grep or some such.

--Rich P.