This is not a question about what tool to use, but about how to avoid a major screw-up. On a laptop I have an OpenSuse 11.3 with the disk configured thus: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x94e494e4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2530 10080787+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda4 * 2531 2550 160650 83 Linux /dev/sda5 2846 9729 55295698+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda6 2558 2836 2241036 83 Linux /dev/sda7 2837 2845 72261 82 Linux swap /dev/sda8 2551 2557 56164+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order Please not that last line! This was originally a dual boot machine, but when I asked when was the last time you booted into Windows I was met with the kind of glassy stare you expect from a deer caught in your headlights. DUH! So C: (/dev/sda1) and D: (/dev/sda2) go. Maybe make /dev/sda1 into /boot and some swap? In an ideal world .... * I'd drag /dev/sda4 (/boot) to the beginning of the disk * I'd drag /dev/sd7 and /dev/sd8 to follow it as swap and merge them * I would somehow expand the LVM to use the space left over in C: and D: But my problem is what will happen to the naming/numbering? My concern is that everything else gets re-numbered. In that ideal world, I suppose, a /etc/fstab that exclusively uses uuid might be immune to a renaming of the partitions in /dev/sd? terms. But that's not what I've got with this client. I'm hesitant to take a step here lest I end up with an unbootable system. What do the Disk Layout Gurus advise? [And yes, in a perfect world we would be running Grub2 and all this could have been put in a LVM and the Windows stuff could have been a virtual machine and none of this would be a problem since LVM is much smarter about naming "partitions". But ... ] -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org