The ultimate solution is a partitioner that runs natively under most or all the operating systems for which it supports native formats. I don't know of any that do all, but DFSee currently runs under windoze, OS/2 & DOS, and supports ext2/ext3. It's Linux port is in development, and expected in under a year from now, maybe only a few months. It has excellent author support, and appears to suffer from no result gotchas, only a steeper learning curve than is popular, and a license fee for continued use and support. URL below includes relevant DFSee links, as well as much other useful partitioning info. -- "Never tire of doing what is right." 2 Thessalonians 3:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html