[Linux-NTFS-User] Resizing Windows 7 Partition?

[Pete M. <mc...@pe...>]

I have a hard drive image file with a Windows 7 installation that I
captured prior to first boot.  It looks like this:

bigmedia:/var/extra1/images# losetup -fsr ./netbook-working-sda.img
/dev/loop0
bigmedia:/var/extra1/images# fdisk -lu /dev/loop0

Disk /dev/loop0: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdc7a3828

      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/loop0p1              63    25173854    12586896   27  Unknown
/dev/loop0p2   *    25173855    25382699      104422+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/loop0p3        25382700   312579759   143598530    7  HPFS/NTFS
bigmedia:/var/extra1/images#



I want to shrink this installation down to 40GB and put it back on the
machine which right now has Ubuntu taking up all 160GB.

I have read that ntfsresize may have some problems resizing Windows 7
partitions, and also that sometimes machines ship in Suspend mode instead
of shutdown that can lead to boot problems.

Can I safely use ntfsresize to shrink partition 3, and put the 3 partitions back
on the drive after my Ubuntu installation, and expect the machine to boot?
Or is that type 27 partition the suspend partition that needs to be first on
the drive?  Anything else I should keep in mind?

Thanks,

-Pete