I’ve been dithering as to whether I should upgrade to Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04), just out.
My main reason for saying no is that I’ve no time. Busy busy me.

On the other hand my system monitor says I have a mere 579.6MB available on dev/hda4/ ie 95% used up, so if I don’t re-install, at this rate I’ll run out of space very soon. Perhaps I’m even at a dicey level - I don’t know.

Lots of things I don’t know after four and half months. I’m pretty certain I didn’t install Edgy Eft properly, ie create proper partitions - hence, perhaps, the rapidly disappearing disk space?

But now I see this in Feisty Documentation.

Ubuntu 7.04 can read and write files on the NTFS drives commonly used by Windows.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 6.10 came with older, beta versions of the NTFS 3G driver. These worked well for many users but were not guaranteed to be stable. Use Ubuntu 7.04 for stable access to NTFS partitions. Alternatively, a stable version of NTFS 3G for older versions of Ubuntu can be obtained from a third-party software repository - see using a third-party NTFS 3G.

Now my decision to wait until I had my present work finished (hopefully October) is up in the air again. I have about 12G left on XP, plus another 12 or so on another Windows partition (where Acer put some files - never knew why) which I muscled in on to install Ubuntu.

I’ll sleep on it. A few times…

Community Ubuntu Documentation - Mounting Windows Partitions