Hi PaulThanks for this comment. I tried to do this but after insialltng it using the add/remove applications it wont start, saying there are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount/unmount, Contact your administrator . I thought this was a permissions issue, but there is only 1 user on this installation and I couldnt work out how to run gparted as sudo or root without the command line, which I only wanted to run as a last resort when using fdisk, as there is serious potential for cock ups!Any further suggestions Paul for myself and other any people who stumble across this thread? I hope the new job is going well, I read your posts on Android with interest even though its not relevant to us.