Hello All, I am looking at setting up another box with 9.0. With this one, I was planning to do a little experimenting. I heard a while back that putting different directories on different drives made the machine more efficient. I am open to suggestions on configurations Here is what I know for sure. 1. I know that Windows 2000 will be on the first hard drive (hda) all by itself. 2. I know I will put /home on a Hard Drive all by itself. 3. I would like to have a drive dedicated to nothing but placing files that would be shared between users. Now, outside of 9.3 GB Drive for Windows 2000, I have ... 2 Western Digital 6.2 GB drives. 1 Western Digital 8.4 GB drive. 1 Western Digital 9.5 GB drive. What I have seen so far tells me the following (please correct me if I am wrong about any of this.) a. /usr should get its own partition (and should be mounted read only?) to protect it from filesystem failures caused by system crashes. b. Have swap on its own hard drive alone with nothing else. (Will having 6GB of swap enhance the performance of the machine or is this just overkill.) c. If you don't have swap on its own drive, make sure that /var and /usr ARE NOT on the same drive with swap. (after reading this, my question is 'ok if this is the case, what is safe to put on the same disk as swap?') Thanks for reading through this, and as I said, I am all ears on suggestions about how best to configure this machine. -=Thinker