Well parted will not work either. It sure seems from the man pages that a lot of the so-called partition tools do not do what they are supposed to do based on their man page. It is really sad. This is hard to stuff and they are wrong. Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7