Plus ca change. Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time. However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again.
Nip over to Psychocats for a few hints.
One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal.
you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
RESULT:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 [...]

Here is a link to a nice tutorial to rectify something most new users overlook or don’t understand.
Move /home to its own partition
A word of caution with this one: there’s an error in the syntax which is corrected by one of the commenters. As another commenter says,
Keep in mind, this is [...]

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 [...]

It all sounds vaguely obscene, but I’m storing the url for Psychocats tutorial on Mounting Windows for a later date.
Mounting Windows Paritions in Ubuntu