Here is the situation. I have a large hard drive with a lot of 50 gig partitions for holding the various operating systems. It currently is holding a suse 11.2, ubuntu 9.04, windoze xp, windoze 7, and a knoppix. I was going to put SuSE 11.3 into an empty partition and check it out. For all of these linux installs I have a 500 gig partition formatted with ext3 as the /home partition and thus far they have had no real problems sharing. (Symbolic links to data storage work wonders.) So I start installing 11.3 and it seems to have no problems until I get to partitioning. Go to throw 11.3 into the sda9 partition and there is no complaints, having the windows partitions available.... no problem. When I get to the home partition it is trying to format it into ext4. Obviously I do not desire to lose the data from multiple installs, nor do I wish to format the partition. The error message I get is that the installation cannot mount a partition with an unknown filetype. The filetype it reports that partition as possessing is 0x83 Linux. Now if I remember right 0x83 is the old standard linux partition and why SuSE does not recognize it is beyond me. Anyway, does anyone have an idea why SuSE 11.3 won't just go ahead and mount that partition? Thanks. -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss University of Arkansas @ Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu There is probably a file attached to this message that is titled something like signature.asc. This is my GPG signature. If you don't know what that is about, don't worry about it and don't bother trying to open the file. If you DO use GPG my public keys are at MIT, NSA, my homepage and in person.