Hello all, Still learning SuSE but have been playing 'round a while and am ready to go hog wild. I have a 13Gb drive which is the system in it's entirety and it's nearly full. Have just received my new 160Gb (yee ha!) and want to start with a clean installation. But I don't want to archive off my entire /home directory contents to CD first if I don't have to. It would take probably 10 discs.... I tried an experiment of this once before and scared myself silly. I installed a spare 2Gb drive I had and somehow managed to make it take over as my \home folder, but of course then I could not access anything in the original \home folder. That is to say many years worth of data.... not a good feeling. But I found someone who told me a fix and after I did that (have forgotten what it was) and took out the 2Gb and rebooted, I had access to the data again. WHEW! Don't want to do that again. So what do those with the experience say I should do: 1. regarding partitioning the 160Gb drive 2. regarding getting all my old "home" stuff to the new system? I've got this idea that I should install the Linux system to a clean and reformatted 13Gb drive and make the 160Gb drive all users files (/home/users all on the 160Gb drive). That way I could pull the drive and install a new one with different content in the /home directories. Or have different physical disks for different users. Is this nuts? 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