My disk still looks like this: Disk: /dev/sda Size: 149.1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Label: dos, identifier: 0x5ef35ef3 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 31262489 31260442 14.9G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 * 31262490 62508914 31246425 14.9G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 62508915 93755339 31246425 14.9G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 93755401 312576704 218821304 104.4G 5 Extended |-/dev/sda5 93755403 94767434 1012032 494.2M 82 Linux swap / Solari |-/dev/sda6 94767498 252975554 158208057 75.5G 83 Linux |-/dev/sda7 252975618 282776129 29800512 14.2G 83 Linux `-/dev/sda8 282776193 312576704 29800512 14.2G 83 Linux Free space 312578048 312581807 3760 1.9M If, with the pointer on the Free space, I do the following: <N> <Backspace> <Backspace> <Backspace> <K> <Enter> (which requests a new partition of 1K size) the response on the bottombar is: No free sectors available. If I stubbornly try the same again (<N> <Backspace> <Backspace> <Backspace> <K> <Enter>) the response on the bottombar is now (in red): Partition 8 is already defined. Delete it before re-adding it. Okay, I do what it says: <Up> <D> Segmentation fault Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html