On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:47:58PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I thought it was partitions with odd numbers of sectors that were the problem? No, the GPT is stored on the second and last sectors of the disk. See <http://lwn.net/2001/0906/kernel.php3> for example, under heading "The case of the conflicting block ioctls". Richard