Hi, I dual boot Mandrake 9 with XP. XP on the main drive 60gig which has 3 partitions c= XP w= programs & stuff x= storage which I share between XP & Linux. Then I have a 10gig slave drive for Mandrake. All was fine and working well till I tried to resize 2 partions w & x with partion magic and it threw some errors at me and when I rebooted x had no letter assigned to it. So I assigned a letter to it and when I rebooted all was ok, programs documents and all were working and the drives resized as I wanted.. But when I next logged into Mandrake the icons I had on my desktop pertaining to x partion (Linux Downloads, My Documents, Music) were just a blank icon with a green question mark on it? So could someone have a gander at my fstab and see if they can spot the problem? thanks Keith /dev/hdd1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdd7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hda,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdc8 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0

The thing to do is check that your fstab corresponds to the partitions on disk. I've noticed that messing about with partitions on the windows side rearranges the order. Bizarre. With Linux, adding a partition may do that, but just resizing them doesn't. Anyway, use "fdisk -l /dev/hdX" where X is the Linux drive letter (ie a for primary master, d for secondary slave, if you see what I mean. It looks like you are using c and d) to see your partition table, and hopefully you can work it out from there. If you need to make any changes, you can just edit fstab. To use the changes, either umount and mount the partition in question, or reboot if you want. It is probably best to do this from a rescue disk, or single user mode, but you can get away with it if you don't (because in this case the missing mounts are not system mounts like / or /usr).

Partition Magic really F$@%S up partition tables like this. Your device numbering has probably changed. If you use fdisk /dev/hda (and also for b c d) and then hit `p` to print the partition table you can match this up with your fstab

Thanks guys, I got it fixed.....