Dunno about Red Hat, I use Debian or Ubuntu myself. On the few ocasions where I've wanted to do something like repartition what I've done is make a tar backup of my system on an external drive. I boot from a live cd such as Knoppix and mount the drives, this way the system that is being backed up isn't actually running. tar cvf /media/maxtor/hostname-backup.tar bin boot etc home lib root sbin usr var Then wipe the system drive, repartition, and restore the backup. Fix fstab, grub config, etc. and reboot to the restored system It's not pretty or elegant by any means, but it works. A Debian specific trick is to dump your selections and debconf to files, backup your user files and config files. Then install the bare minimum Debian install. Feed in your selections and debconf data, run apt-get with the right switches, and you're back to clean system with all your packages. Restore user data and configurations. Install Linux in VMWare server. Take a drive snapshot. Done. Sorry if you were looking for an elegant tool instead of brute force. :-D -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned