Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless of what happens :)
I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/home mount: error while guessing filesystem type mount: you must specify the filesystem type -t ext2 or -t ext3 doesn't help (it's ext3). I'm going to call it a night and see if if there's any more advice by morning, then start making changes to hda in the morning when I'm more awake. Yeah, I do need the machine for work, and have learned a good rule 0 as you pointed out: don't mess with the partition table while on the road. It seems like I've messed with quite a few partition tables without any problems, and I guess I got brash :(. I will certainly keep you posted.
