On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > Or try switching to an fdisk tool that produces a GUID partition table > (GPT), which shouldn't have problems with partitions of that size. It > looks like the tool for that is "gdisk", though I've never used it... That fixed it!! Switching from MBR to GPT was quick and painless with gdisk, it re-wrote the partition table and now I have my partitions persistent after reboot. a million thanks, Brian