Indeed, RH is increasingly going the way of MS, which of course it parallels (commercial software distributor) and, dare I say, tries to emulate in some ways. So RH wants to make their installations as easy as possible, thus we have things like RPM and Disk "Druid". To the original poster: that sucks, sorry dude. To the people who said "you should have had a backup", thanks for wasting list space. Dare I quote someone who once offered a solution to my FDISK problem "reinstall everything, but be more careful this time." VERY helpful. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.