Dear All, I am wondering if I should use RAID, and I'd like some comments/advice about the RAID solution or maybe simpler and better alternatives. Here is the situation: a) I have two IDE HD's, a 13.6 GB and a 4.3 GB. b) I miscalculated the space I needed in my home directory when I partitioned the 13.6 HD and installed and configured Suse 6 months ago. (My needs have also changed during this time). I need about another 700 MB in the home directory. I have them available in the large HD, but that would require repartitioning that HD, reinstalling, etc. (It is my understanding that I cannot resize the / partition non-destructively; moreover, the / and the /home partitions are not even contiguous). c) I also have that space available on the second HD. d) I know I could mount a partition of the second HD under my home directory (say /home/ramon/disk2). But that is somewhat of a pain, since it is something I will always need to take care of manually (make sure I keep things spread around well enough so that I don't fill either partition). In other words, I'll need to move some directories under the /disk2 folder, and then I might need to remove them to the old one, etc, etc. This is even more of a pain if I have programs that point to locations that keep moving around. d) I thought about using (software) RAID, something like linear concatenation or RAID 0. But I am not sure it is appropriate in my case. I am concerned about: 1. Increased CPU load; that I want to minimize (I have an AMD 233 MHz and I do a fair amount of number crunching, so it is not like I have CPU to spare). 2. Spending a huge amount of time configuring RAID. Thanks, Ramon -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/