Hi. (sorry I replyed in last email rather than posting to the list..) Thanks - after issuing the commands it has correctly resized.. So it is possible to resize (with the extra steps..) Here is the output from the ntfsresize command:- I have attached the complete output in a txt file (virt-resize2.txt<https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=ed29735425&view=att&th=133c6f043b2c4ea6&attid=0.1&disp=safe&realattid=f_gv9opkt20&zw> *)* Regards ---------------------------- Welcome to virt-rescue, the libguestfs rescue shell. Note: The contents of / are the rescue appliance. You have to mount the guest's partitions under /sysroot before you can examine them. bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell groups: cannot find name for group ID 0 I have no name!@(none):/# ntfsresize /dev/vda2 ntfsresize v2011.4.12AR.4 (libntfs-3g) Device name : /dev/vda2 NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 14925427200 bytes (14926 MB) Current device size: 32105103360 bytes (32106 MB) New volume size : 32105099776 bytes (32106 MB) Checking filesystem consistency ... 100.00 percent completed Accounting clusters ... Space in use : 7860 MB (52.7%) Collecting resizing constraints ... WARNING: Every sanity check passed and only the dangerous operations left. Make sure that important data has been backed up! Power outage or computer crash may result major data loss! Are you sure you want to proceed (y/[n])? y Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ... Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while) Updating $BadClust file ... Updating $Bitmap file ... Updating Boot record ... Syncing device ... Successfully resized NTFS on device '/dev/vda2'. ----------------------------