I've been running fedora core since fc3 in a dual boot with Windows XP. I'm now running fc5 and using vmware player to run Windows XP. I must say vmware works incredibly well on fc5. I don't boot to Windows XP very often and with VMWarePlayer working so well, I'm ready to make better use of the partition. My current partitions are: /dev/hda1 * 1 3199 25695936 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3200 3212 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3213 9729 52347802+ 8e Linux LVM So can I just blow away the hda1 partition, create a new linux partition, and add it to the lvm? Or will that hose the boot/grub process? Suggestions? Thanks, James