On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Filippos Klironomos wrote: > Usually the partition table is stored in two places just for cases > like these but I am not sure how it works with ext2 or ext3. hmmm ... when is the partition table stored in two places? this is not something that would filesystem-specific, so it wouldn't matter if you were using ext2, ext3, FAT, NTFS or what. perhaps you're thinking of the filesystem *superblocks* that might be replicated throughout an ext2/3 filesystem, but i'd be interested in knowing about partition table redundancy. rday