Sorry if this is irrelevant but the following statement from Mike Hitchcock
definitely got me confused:

>I ran mkfs again on /dev/sd0a and /dev/sd0g, just to be anal.

So if any other non-Anglo-Saxons didn't get it either here's an explanation
I got from an American friend:

>"anal" comes from "anal retentive", which I think Freud invented to
>describe people who like to keep things in extreme order and dot every "i"
>and cross every "t".  people that sort their colored socks in one drawer
>and white socks in another drawer exhibit anal tendencies.  I'm not sure
>the word works so well in Sweden, since people are, uh, rather organized
>here. ;)

/Johan