Hello, Hope somebody can explain these two odd things about my partitions. Have two hard drives, dual boot. Windows on hda (6 gig), and Suse on hdb (30 gig) I use Partition Magic to set up the drives. Set up separate space and partitioned that on hdb to add another Linux OS to try out. Have not yet installed the other system. This is what PM shows as partitions. hdb1= /, hdb2 = /usr, hdb3 = swap, All primary partitions. That is what I set up originally using about half the drive. The space I set up, hdb4, is an extended primary partition with logical partitions inside for the new OS. Now, however, the Suse boot message shows the following: <6> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb3 hdb4 Why is hdb2 the extended partition instead of hdb4? Is that something Suse did when it installed? My fstab also reflects the hdb1, hdb3, and hdb4 configuration. I guess that I never noticed it until I repartioned. Should I go back into PM and change the configuration? I hate to do that.......BTW should I set up a separate swap space for the new OS, or will it find the original swap space? OK, on to the 2nd question about hda, the windows partitions. I frequentl access the windows partitions for documents and data still saved there. This is what PM shows as the partitions on hda. hda1 =C: System (primary), hda2 =extended (pimary), with 3 logical partitions within as hda3= D: Applications, hda4= E: Data, and hda5 =E: Storage. Used to be able to access them all. Now, this is what the boot message shows for hda: <6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > Notice that hda3 and hda4 are missing and the other partitions have been bumped up two numbers. The two primaries are OK but two of the logicals don't show. So now when I try to mount hda3 or hda4, I get the following message: root@linux:/ > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) root@linux:/ > No! it isn't. My cdrom and cdwriter mount as /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder. And why, are two devices which are in reality hdc and hdd taking/holding places which should only be partitions on the harddrive, hda ?? This is my fstab file: /dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrecorder /cdrecorder auto defaults,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda3 /windows/D vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda4 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/F vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb4 swap swap defaults 0 2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 Hope that some of you expert partioning guys can explain this to me. TIA, Bob