<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.1.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Evan, Using the GParted Live CD, you will be able to 'Grow' your partition.  Of course, to give you the usual warning - something could go wrong and you could lose all your data - so backup anything important first. (Although, gparted is available in Xubuntu, and can be installed using Synaptic, it is best to use the Live CD - it is the latest version, and booting off the Live CD allows you to work on your hard disk while no systems are running on the hard disk.) Download the latest stable release Gparted Live CD .iso and burn the image to CD - if you use Brasero (in Xubuntu) that will be the 'Burn Image' option. <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779</A> Boot up off the live Gparted CD.  You will be prompted several times during the start-up sequence.  I use a US keyboard and I can just press the ENTER key at all prompts. You will eventually get a basic windowed environment and the GParted GUI program will be running.  Look around you will see the options to shrink and grow partitions.  Even after you choose to do something, nothing happens until you press the 'Apply' button.  There will be plenty of help available on GParted, itself. Regards, David Collins On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:47 -0800, Evan Murri wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"> <TR> <TD VALIGN="top"> I installed a very minimal Xubuntu installation (for dual boot with Windows 2000) on an old Thinkpad X20.  Now, I realize that I should have partitioned a much bigger partition for Xubuntu. Are there any partition programs that are either already on my installation, or that I can download and use to re-partition a larger portion of my hard-drive to use with Xubuntu? Also, where would I find very elementary instructions in using the program? Would such a program have all the necessary instructions in a help file? Thank you, Evan Murri </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>