On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:24:11 -0500, Bruce Miller wrote: > Short answer: install the Ubuntu package ntfsprogs and use the > application ntfsresize FWIW ntfsresize also worked for me when I installed Ubuntu on my laptop a year or so ago. But I noticed others with partitioning problems using the live CD seemed to have an easier time just by switching to the text-based "alternate" CD; there is a checkbox for it at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download (Less glitz but more Debian reliability apparently.) Joe