>Here's my strong suggestion to you: Using fdisk, remove your partition and >recreate it. Then remake your ext3 filesystem, and see what happens. I >still have this feeling like parted is wack. I'm doing as you suggested, since your box appears to be doing what its supposed to. I'll post again when I know if it worked or not. Thank You -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com