Martin: Thanks for the information. I've tried your suggestion of partitioning after the box is already up and running. However, parted produces some interesting output via its print command once I'm done: Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flag 1 0.031 -189362.652 primary ext3 The partition mounts fine, although df reports its size as 1008G. Not what I was expecting. I'm writing to it now via a loop to eat all the disk space in roughly 1G increments to see exactly how big it is. At the rate its going, about a Gig per minute, this loop is going to run about 30 hours. The parted print output and df's output could just be errors in printing and all could be OK, but I'd appreciate knowing what yours shows to see if I'm wasting my time. Thank You -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com