On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:25 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote: > any other suggestions? or did i do something and screw up big time? > everybody else is telling me just to drop it and forget it, but I want to > understand what I did so I dont do it again. Are your partitions actually labelled as you think they are? Are you accessing the right partitions. Post the output from fdisk -l for us to see (that's a lowercase L after the dash). You'll need to be root. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.