That last sentence is important! If this is a standard, then it would seem to be actually intended to deceive the consumer. If there is to be a standard for 1, 1.5, and 2, they really should have some sensible relationship in size. That said, I confess that I use partitions and leave a little breathing room on my drives when building a raid array. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid ro...