I repartitioned two hd using fdisk. Both are left out 62 unallocated sectors. Why? What went wrong? How come the two different size and make hd are same unallocated numbers (62)? So many bad sector could egzist on brand NEW hd?? Thanks. Here are the messages: hepike:/etc/samba # fdisk /dev/sdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7296. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-4): 1 Command (m for help): d Selected partition 2 Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-7296, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-7296, default 7296): 3598 Command (m for help): t Selected partition 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): c Changed system type of partition 1 to c (Win95 FAT32 (LBA)) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (3599-7296, default 3599): Using default value 3599 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (3599-7296, default 7296): Using default value 7296 Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 2 Hex code (type L to list codes): c Changed system type of partition 2 to c (Win95 FAT32 (LBA)) Command (m for help): v 62 unallocated sectors Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. Syncing disks. -- Steve From HP_zt3010 SuSE 9.0 Kmail 1.54, KDE 3.14, Kernel 2.4.19