Dear *, I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE hard-disk ) I'm trying to create following partition layout -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- device size mount-point -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hda1 100mb /boot hda2 500mb swap hda3 5000mb / hda4 4500mb Extended partition hda5 500mb /var hda6 1000mb /var/www hda7 2000mb /home hda8 1000mb /usr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've done this on disk druid licked on new ---> mount point */boot *filesystem type ext3 100MB ( fixed sized is selected ) and it becomes hda1 again licked on new ----> filesystem type Swap 500MB ( fixed sized is selected ) and it becomes hda2 ... now creating / ( root ) partition again clicked on new ---> mount point */* filesystem type ext3 5000mb ( fixed sized is selected ) ... now something happens as soon as I press ok the swap partition is sifted to hda3 (previously it was on hda2 ) and / partition goes to hda2 if I go ahead with this and create other partition / goes to hda5 why like this ???? how do I exactly maintain the said order of the partition in exercise ?? -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines