Hi all, Taking the advice on config of the new drive, etc. and have had some successful experiments. Before I finalize things, a few questions I'm still fuzzy on. I'm setting up a new harddrive (hdb) and want to move all the user data (/home/jeepnut) to a separate drive from the system files. 1. when I partition hdb should I partition as a primary or as an extended partition. I'm unclear about what the difference is other than being able to define more than 4 logical partitions in an extended partition. Does it really matter if I use extended or primary for this partition? I got into trouble once defining /home on the hdb drive. Once I did that, I no longer had access to the data in the /home folder on the hda drive. So I could not move things over to the new drive. So it occurs to me to make hdb have a different mount point, something other than /home. 2. when I define the partition, should I define the mount point as something like /UserFiles/JeepNut? or should I just make the mount point on hdb /JeepNut? Apologies if these are stupid questions. I'm just beginning to understand what is going on with the partitions and their names... Thanks! JeepNut In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze