So now I have the system un-Hosed and stable, I look to the next part. I have # fdisk -l /dev/sda Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 26 206848 83 Linux /dev/sda2 27 156 1044225 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda6 2558 2836 2241036 83 Linux /dev/sda5 2846 9729 55295698+ 8e Linux LVM sda1 - /boot sda2 - swap sda6 - / I plan to close up the gap by putting in /dev/sda4 from 157 too 300 and moving / there. In other word, presently there is CURRENTLY Primary sda1 /boot 202 MB Primary sda2 SWAP 1019.75 MB --- unallocated --- 18.34 GB Secondary sda3 --- unallocated --- 54.94 MB sda6 / 2.14 GB --- unallocated --- 70.63 MB sda5 LVM 52.73 GB Now in an ideal world, openSuse would have adopted Grub2 a long time back (what's holding it up?) and thus be able to boot from LVM and the whole disk would be LVM and none of this nonsense with shuffling partitions would arise! In a next to ideal world gparted would be able to do all the Partition Magic can do and more and shuffle partitions and grow them regardless of contents. But this is here and now. What I need to do is to create a partition - sda4 - in that 18G unallocated gap up close to sda2 and move what is presently in sda6 into it, update grub and fstab. That leaves me with two unallocated areas, one about 16GB and one of about 2.26 GB. In a better world, I'd be able to expand the front-end of that secondary partition to eat up 16 GB and expand the front end of the LVM partition to eat up the resulting 18 GB. I wish! But what to do really? Unfortunately moving the whole lot off and reformatting the disk isn't practical. -- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. --Martin Luther King, Jr. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org