I just went and backed up my dynamic data partition so I could erase it just to see what happens and noticed something strange.

/dev/hdc is the original drive which came in the empeg. It has about 16 megs devoted to /dev/hdc3.

/dev/hda is a 40GB drive I added myself. It has a about 24 megs devoted to /dev/hda3. I built this with the drive upgrade instructions, word for word since I wouldn't have known how to do it otherwise.

i.e. I'm getting something like this

empeg:/empeg/bin# fdisk /dev/hda



Command (m for help): p



Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4864 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes



   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1             1         5     40131    5  Extended

/dev/hda2             6        10     40162+  83  Linux

/dev/hda3            11        13     24097+  10  OPUS

/dev/hda4            14      4864  38965657+  83  Linux

/dev/hda5             1         3     24034+  83  Linux

/dev/hda6             4         5     16033+  82  Linux swap



Command (m for help): q



empeg:/empeg/bin# fdisk /dev/hdc



Command (m for help): p



Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 58140 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes



   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hdc1             1        66     33232+   5  Extended

/dev/hdc2            67       132     33264   83  Linux

/dev/hdc3           133       165     16632   10  OPUS

/dev/hdc4           166     58140  29219400   83  Linux

/dev/hdc5             1        33     16569   83  Linux

/dev/hdc6            34        66     16600+  82  Linux swap

I know that /dev/hda3 is the only dynamic partition in use. Could the fact it's bigger have anything to do with my problems by any chance?

I know I'm clutching at straws here, but this is really starting to annoy me.