Hi, I'm setting up VMWare. I started with a virtual disk emulation (the disk image is stored in a file in the host, i.e., Linux, file system) and did a WinXP install. Then I wanted to switch to a physical partition, so I just copied that disk image to the partition I want to use and created a new VMWare virtual machine specification that refers to it. Somewhat to my surprise, that worked and I can boot the new VM. Keep in mind that the virtual disk was just that, the entire image of a disk inside a Linux file. That means, in particular, that it includes an MBR and a partition table. So now I have a physical, Linux disk partition that VMWare will use to emulate in the guest operating system a whole disk. So far so good. The only problem is that I have a 20 GB physical partition holding a single virtual partition of 8 GB with 12 GB not allocated to any (virual) partition. I thought I could go into the Windows Management Console and resize this partition to use the whole disk, but it doesn't seem to offer me a way to do that. I tried using the various Linux partition editing tools, but I cannot find the right tool and command that will allow me to simply move the end-point of that first partition out to the end of the whole (virtual) disk (really a physical partition). Parted and fdisk are actually willing to treat the Linux disk partition as a whole disk and they properly detect and display the existing parition table, but the only resizing command available is in parted where I must use decimal, fractional numbers to specify the start and end of the resized partition. If I was using integers, I'd go for it, but I'm very uncomfortable with the notion of using "0.031" as the starting point (that's what it shows for the existing partition's starting point) in the resized partition. Can anyone give me a recipe (using any tool I'll be able to get my hands on) for adjusting the end-point of this partition? Thanks. Randall Schulz