Hi Christophe, there is actually a small bug in kpartx; it calculates the size for an extended partition relative to the entire disk, not the contained partition. This patch fixes this. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)