Thanks Stuart and Bart - I was worried about that and your replies gave me the confidence to continue :o) Clearly though, I am being very dumb today... I highlighted my /dev/hda1 partition in qtparted, selected "resize", changed the space to 30Gig and hit OK. I immediately got an error message in qtparted "Filesystem check failed! Totally 1 cluster accounting mismatches". Do you know what this means and what I can do to remedy it? Many thanks, Dave This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.