James, et al -- ...and then James Philp said... % % I don't know of any linux programs that do this % (though they probably exist), but the easiest way is As a matter of fact, I was pointed to one, and it has worked dandily so far. It's ntfsresize, it has a sourceforge page, and it is, conveniently enough, on the Knoppix CD that I burned and used to test the Sat itself, so I've been playing with my slices :-) Taking this route rather than hacking their recovery CD means that I can't reload Win without also torching my Linux installation, but I don't expect to have to reload Win, and I can probably shoehorn Linux onto my external SCSI drive as a backup anyway. Now, for my next trick, I am about to dd the entire resized partition to an identical partition at the right spot on the hard drive so that I can then wipe out the original and put Linux at the front of the disk where it belongs :-) [I'm going with 1G swap for this 512M machine, 12G of Linux, 7G of XP on NTFS, 7G of shared vfat32 space, and perhaps about 900M of slice for a hibernation partition if I can get that working. Anyone who wants to listen in can come over to the tlinux-users list :-) % to use Partition Magic and resize the NTSF in Windows. I thought of that, but it would actually cost me money :-) % It also creates a lovely new ext2 partition all ready % to install SuSE. How nice :-) % % A word of warning though, SuSE 8.1 doesn't work great % on Toshiba Satellites (from my many attempts). 8.2 on % the other way works straight out of the box (well % whatever that means in Linux). Hmmm... Well, I won't be able to swing buying 8.2 when I only bought 8.1 a few months ago, so I'll have to follow the upgrade path. I'll ask that in another letter if it doesn't come obviously, though. % % james. Thanks a bunch & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!