Ok so I have Red Hat v9 installed on my main hard drive, and I have WinXP on the secondary master. Is it possible to partition my 120gb main drive, that has Red Hat on it, to add a NTFS file system partition so that windows can utilize both drives? Would this screw up the drive? Any help would be much appreciated.

no, setup a FAT32 partition that way both windows and linux both have RW access. Writing to ntfs in linux can be done be you stand I go chance of corpting(sp?) your partition.

-Joey

resize2fs can grow or shrink a ext2/3 file system. You have to shrink the file system using resize2fs, then you have to shrink the partition using fdisk. See the man page on resize2fs. If you make the new partition smaller than the new file system you will be in deep trouble - so be ultra careful. Can be a bit tricky working out disk geometry - it's easier if you don't mind waisting a few megs off the end of the shrunken file system.

I think - but I'm not sure - that newer versions of commercial software Partition-Magic can do all this for you.

And yes, making a new shared FAT partition seems like the safest way to go.

You can also get software for Microsoft operating systems that can read/write ext2/3 file systems - I suspect google would track this down.