Well, I verified the numbering of my HD. It's as follows: /dev/hda/ 55.8G Toshiba MK5021GAS /dev/hda1/ 46.1GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C /dev/hda2/ 9.7G EXTENDED /dev/hda5/ 509.8M Linux swap swap /dev/hda6/ 9.2G Linux native / Now I'm really confused. I seem to be missing /dev/hda3/ and /dev/hda4/. When I installed, I installed Xp first, then installed SuSE using defaults except for the size of the partition. So, SuSE sees this as a combination of two physical volumes with the Linux physical partitino divided into to logical volumes? Wouldn't the MBR be its own physical partition? If i understand what I'm seeing correctly, I only have two Physical partitions. Partition Magic shpu;ld give me the option of creating either another physical partition of a logical one. If I create a physical one, wold it be /dev/hda3/? If I create a logical one, it would be /dev/hda7/? And, SuSE will see all this without my needing to renumber things? Also, I probably wasn't clear. This is a computer that already has both OSes installed. Thanks again, -Joe G