I recently nuked 2000 Server off my disk since I finally completed my MCSE and no longer needed the playpen OS.<P>Pre-XP my hd looked like this:<P>[18gb unpartitioned][19gb ext2][1.5gb linux swap]<BR> ...

The ext2 ifs will not mount an 'unclean' filesystem. This can include an ext3 fs that has unplayed journal entries.<BR><BR>Other possibilities include ext4 and an unsupported version of ext3. IIRC, ...

Resizing partitions via a command line doesn't have to be complicated.