you should be able to use cfdisk to resize your partitions - however it's not very 
graphical, or particularly friendly & you could possibly trash your partition :)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:36 p.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Newbie Joining
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have taken advise and will now pester the list for help. My 
> long term goal is to be MS 
> free, my short term goal is to go longer than 25 days without 
> a BSOD (or equivalent). 
> I'm afraid I can't impress you with a flash system, all I 
> have to play with is a Cyrix 
> 233MMX, 224Mb and 4.3Gb. I took Jason's advise at the 
> installfest and got another 
> HDD for Linux (the aforementioned 4.3Gb). I have previously 
> being running Mandrake 
> 8.0 and 9.0 on a 1Gb partition with Win2k on the primary HDD.
> 
> I wish to start from scratch again on the new HDD. Please 
> assume I have a very basic 
> understanding of Linux.
> 
> So my first two questions are:
> 
> How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows?
> 
> Other than root, swap and home, should I have any other 
> directory on a seperate 
> partition?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 

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