I thought I'd mention how useful the "rescue" command in GNU parted is. In the last year, by using this wonderful command, I've been able to completely resurrect 2 ext3 file systems that appeared to be lost. For example, yesterday I made some modifications to a RAID unit on a popular RAID controller. I had two units, and I changed one from RAID 0 to RAID 1. I expected this to wipe out the data on this unit. But, for some unknown reason, it also wiped out the partition table on the other unit. The "rescue" command saved the day. If you ever have partition table problems but think your file system area is intact, you should check out this command. I think you'll like it. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforrest at berkeley.edu