What's the easiest way to safely resize /dev/hda3 down to 19GB, leaving 40GB of unused space for a FAT32 shared partition? Here's my current partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 41613 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 41614 43694 1048824 82 Linux swap Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 * 43695 155061 56128968 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

I have never done it but: - Use tar to backup the whole partition - Delete the partition - Recreate the partition as 19GB - Use tar to put all the files back Use the web the way it was meant to be used. Get Firefox.

I prefer using a nondestructive partitioning tool such as Partition Magic. I think I read somewhere that BootIt can do nondestructive partition resizing too, but I'm not sure on that one. You can Google for BootIt, and check their WEB site. The download includes an .iso image which can be burned to CD IIRC. Ernie [ewilcox@buckeye-express.com] ICQ 41060744 Registered Linux User 247790

If the partition is formatted to ext2/3 or reiserfs you can resize it with parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html You may already have it installed.