Actually ... On 2/17/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see any reason cfdisk needed to write to his /home > partition, even to rewrite the geometry information. cfdisk should not have changed anything -- but I believe the system is confused now because the client has changed the hda5/6 to hda7/8 ? > > Here's my partition table now, in a couple different formats: > > > > cfdisk 2.11u Originally this was more or less a Debian issue but I feel it is migrating toward a Knoppix/toolset problem -- I would be of very little help -- I have never used Knoppix and have heard bad things about cfdisk -- so I must bow out. Sorry. -- WC Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/