Hello Linux folkz, Due to my old HD (8 years) random failures I have to transfer all my Linux partitions on a new one. I created three partitions on a new HD: swap, /boot (ext2) and / (reiserfs) I mounted new HD on the old one under corresponding /mnt/new and /mnt/new/boot directories and copied all respective directories from my old HD on the new HD. In /fstab I entered: /dev/hde1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hde2 /mnt/new/boot ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde3 /mnt/new reiserfs defaults 0 0 First question: After reboot my /mnt/new/boot partition has disappeared with all its content. I can mount /mnt/new/ and /mnt/new/boot separately one after another but why they are not mounted properly upon boot up? Why /mnt/new/ supersedes /mnt/new/boot/ ? Second question: If I remove my old faulty HD how I can start using the new one? Can I just change a boot specifying line in /etc/lilo.conf to boot /dev/hde3, remove lines about old HD and modify lines about new HD in /etc/fstab? /dev/hde1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hde2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 Will it work or not? I don't want to screw up my whole Linux installation Thank you in advance for any ideas. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with disabilities Act.