I am fairly new to this Linux thing, only getting the hang of it now. I got a new HP Compaq nc8230 for work but it has a tiny 40GB hdu. I want to install a 80GB but I don't want to reload. I'm dual booting XP (for work purposes only, mind you) & Novell SuSe 10.x. I have tried using Ghost 8, works fine with the NTFS parts, but when it comes to resizing the Linux parts, it bombs. (Could be user error). I would like to increase the partitions as follows: SWAP from 700MB - 2GB, "/" from 8GB to 10GB, and "/home" from 10GB to 20GB. Any suggestions for me please?? Also, I have found that the pc fails to respond when it's running on battery and goes into sleep mode. Has any HP users come across this?? Your assistance is much appreciated.

if you have another pc you can temporarly store your linux partition on, i'd boot off of a live distro and use qtparted or gparted to create your linux partitions as you want, then copy everything over via network. After everything is copied rerun your bootloader.

as far as your sleep issue, i would try a newer kernel.

Warning: BACKUP please - before anything -

I think you might need another hard disk to do this operation.

First install this partimage (in linux) http://www.partimage.org in another machine and USB connect you 40 GB hard disk on that. Backup each partition correctly. Dont use any image more that 2GB if you have FAT. Remember the size of partitions correctly/EXACTLY.

Now remove 40GB and connect 80GB disk. First create same size partitions (as in 40 GB)with QTPARTED in 80 GB disk. This is because partimage CAN restore to large size but then the extra space CANNOT be used. Now launch "partimage" and restore your partitons. Then, you must install GRUB to MBR in your new hard disk. You can do this by booting with SUSE CD 1 in rescue mode/reinstall GRUB.

Boot to win/linux to make sure everything is OK.

Now reboot with sysrescueCD http://www.sysresccd.org/ or knoppix or partition magic and try to resize partitions.

BACKUP please - before anything -

Thank you, gentlemen, I shall post the results when I have attemtped this...