It's time to add a little room to my S.u.S.E. 5.0 machine. I'm adding a Fujitsu 1.7Gb EIDE drive (which formally contained some wincrap and a couple of Red Hat partitions). I can mount the LINUX partitions, so I believe that the physical installation is working. I was just about to run (as root) fdisk /dev/hdb, create a partition or maybe 2, format and add the new partition(s) to the fstab when it occured to me that perhaps I should be using some S.u.S.E. provided tool for this. I didn't see anything obvious in YaST, so my question would be ought I just do this by hand (as it were), or does S.u.S.E. provide some preferred tool for preparing new HD space on a running system? Any pitfalls anyone has encountered with this seemingly simple operation? BTW, for what it's worth, I've used SCO, IRIX 5.3, Slackware, Red Hat and Caldera, but I seem to be sticking with S.u.S.E. for personal (and increasingly, for business) use. SCO is rock solid and free for personal use (though hardly so for commercial projects). IRIX is also a fine system (if you happen to have MIPS boxes). Slackware seems to run on just about any hardware (it's running right now on a 386 4Mb system on the other desk). Red Hat is easy to use and I like rpms a lot. To make a long story short, I have yet to see a *bad* LINUX distribution and any LINUX is twice the OS of its direct M$ counterpart. I'll confess that YaST confuses me a bit, but not enough to prevent me from installing the system I want (though it takes me a couple of tries, even after having installed 5.0 several times). I like the S.u.S.E. window managers, X servers and choice of application and utility software. I like the configuration update utility (though it's not perfect and will overwrite your carefully crafted .~rc files if you don't take care). I have nothing bad to say about any LINUX distribution I've tried, but I'll be sticking with S.u.S.E. for a while. TIA for any new HD advice, phil -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e