It's been too long since I've used a Linux box since I bought my Mac Pro in October.  As good as Fink for the Mac is, it's no Linux replacement.  So today I've decided to install Ubuntu 7 on my TV media machine, currently running Vista.  The first thing I did was to pop in my Partition Magic CD, however, it didn't like the Vista partitions.  I thought I'd go into 'Computer Manager' in the advanced controls in Vista and check what the partition type was.  When right clicking the parition, I noticed  that there is a resize partition option.  I thought, "this will never work", particularly on a primary volume.  But it did. Yes!  You can dynamically resize paritions from the primary drive in Vista. Microsoft got something right. Here's a link to a related article that I've just found. http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewstory.php?t=78111