THANK YOU.
It worked great.  Much easier than reinstalling.
I basically cut the partition in half.  No real problems running this
program at all.  Had to rerun lilo from a different partition but that
was simple i.e. I've done it so many times I could do it in my sleep.

Thanks all,
sim

Brian wrote:

> > I am trying to resize a partition on my HD.  Having some
> > trouble.
> > I don't want to go out and buy Partition Magic.
>
> Use GNU parted.  http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ it's
> basically a command line version of Partition Magic but much
> more free (beer and speech).
> -Brian