I've carefully read the autoyast partitioning documentation,I've gone through the last four months of archives, I've done the y2update thing from http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/y2update/ and have verified that this is mounted and read - and still I can't get my partitions the way I want them. "Not enough free space on /dev/hda", alternatively "No free space" when creating the partition plan. Current partitions: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs /dev/hda3 swap swap /dev/hda4 /scratch reiserfs I want to keep /scratch without formatting and smash the other three into two partitions, / and swap: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <size>max</size> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">true</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>2gb</size> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <mount>/scratch</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">4</partition_nr> </partition> </partitions> <use>1,2,3</use> </drive> </partitioning> I've tried several variations, including fixed size for /, changing the /scratch partition number, but the error message remains the same. Setting "initialize" on the drive made it kill /scratch as well. Any suggestions to what I'm missing? Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 teknisk@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no http://www.mi.uib.no/