Hi, Ok cool :-) It seems to work, I get a warning about too much cylinders though, maybe that's why fdisk doesn't play nice. Even though that doesn't make much sense since the partition created the moment you make a new Sun Label is 1TB - 4G (for the swap partition). File system type? [ext2]? ext3 Start? 0 End? -1s Warning: You requested a partition from 0.00B to 1000GB. The closest location we can manage is 0.00B to 1000GB. Is this still acceptable to you? Yes/No? yes Warning: The disk has 121601 cylinders, which is greater than the maximum of 65536. (parted) print Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD103UJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: sun Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 1000GB 1000GB ext3 (parted) Patrick _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc