My hard drives are 6G and 4G, respectively; my machine is about 5 years old and its BIOS won't support anything above 10G (P2 300Mhz Asus motherboard, Award BIOS, latest flash upgrades applied), but you can't buy 10G drives anymore ... when they were for sale I didn't need them, and now that I could use some extra room the smallest readily available is a 60G drive that blew out my BIOS when I tried to install it. I suppose I could pick up a smaller drive at a show, but the shows are all on Saturdays and Sundays, and I work Saturdays, and most of the vendors are gone on Sunday's, and usually I don't have enough lead time from when the show is announced to schedule a Saturday off. So, I have SuSE 7.3 installed in a 2G partition on the 4G drive - well, in fact, the 4G drive is divided up into a 2G W95 partition and the remaining space is given over to Linux - I realize there's more than one Linux partition. The 2G W95 partition on that drive is used as a "hot" backup for the Linux partitions (using Ghost Enterprise 6.5), and I have a similar partition on the 6G drive filling the same purpose for Windows. That way, when one of my "experiments" causes the machine to turn purple and melt through the floor, I can put things back exactly the way they were. This arrangement is not intended for hard-disk recovery; the idea is, take a Ghost backup, perform experiment (or install software), get into "oh-crap-it-failed" state, boot up W95, then restore Linux. I create file backups for my userids using "cp" out to zip disks; I'll master "tar" someday, but now is not the time. BTW, the root ("/") partition is 1.8G, not 1.8M like I said earlier. Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436