True, but I can always rely on the live CD can't I? I also have Knoppix on a FAT32 partition which I boot from a floppy... I think it's what you call a 'Poor man's install'.

Right now I'm worried about resizing the / partition. I've managed to resize my swap partition before so I know qtparted can do the job... it's just that the / partition has real data on it. Hmmm...