> partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just > want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it > is being done as root. Be sure to reboot the system after using cfdisk to modify the partition table and using mkfs to make the filesystem on it. Despite the message cfdisk produces about rereading the table using so low level call, I consistently find that running mkfs without the reboot does not work. Alexis