I wrote: > "Unused" is the problem with this design. The space is unused on by > accident. There is no standard (even an informal one) that reserves it. Nicolas George writes: > This is theoretical. In practice, it works pretty well, because people > (at least competent sysadmins and authors of installers) do not mess > randomly with their partition table. Think about multiboot home user systems. -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA