I've always had good luck with qtparted, especially when I boot from a stand-alone knoppix. Last weekend, during a BLU installfest, while installing SuSE 10.1 from the DVD on a Dell laptop, the resize of the Windows XP NTFS partition failed. We corrected it by running the Windows chkdisk command, then I booted Knoppix. QTParted reported an error, and I reran chkdsk again, then booted Knoppix and QTParted was able to resize the partition properly. After resizing, I booted Windows just to make sure it would run before we installed SuSE 10.1. The attendee was able to install SuSE 10.1 successfully. After the install of SuSE 10.1, the attendee was able to boot Windows. The standard practice I have been using at installfests is to be very paranoid and always make sure that Windows runs before and after the Linux install. The bottom line for me is that QTParted seems to be very solid even though it uses the GNU parted libraries, and I have had issues with other GNU parted front ends. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9