Hello, It's a bit OT, but I don't know where to ask. I'm the author of the partition rescue HOWTO. Usually, when one is dealing with the partition table, there is little risk. The partition table is what it says, a table. the actual file system is written when one use mkfs, not fdisk. well... sort of. I friend of mine said yesterday that in case of *logical* partition (5 and up) the file allocation table (superbloc?) of the partition is written on a sector, at the beginning of the partition so the question: How exacltly do fdisk works. say I create one primary partition of 20Go, and the rest is extended. In the extended I write two logical partitions, then I *w* write the table. what is really written? only the MBR (sort of) partition table or is the allocation table of the partitons 5 and 6 written right now, overwriting may be some data?? My friend say yes, some data is lost. I wonder why. it's the filesystem goal to write on the logical, including it's superbloc? what do you feel? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org