remembering back to the fdisk problem with fdisk writing disk labels 1 cylinder too far... I have a disk with partition c 2049 cylinders ... and partition e runs on to 2050. Is it possible (ie safe) to delete partition e and then reacreate it with 2049 cylinders as the upper bound? or is it preferable to copy all the data off it first? cya -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au gotta www.wibble.org again