Hi There, I'm a complete linux newbie so please excuse me, I been reading the list for a while picking up what I can but this just seems to be going over my head :( I just built my first pc from scratch and decided to jump in the deep end. I installed suse 8.2 on one of the sata drives, then bought an ide so I switched sata off and installed on that (long story). Now I have the second sata I want to set up raid-1 and if possible assign a user to these drives leaving the ide (hda) just for the os, at the moment I have: hda - 32.7 gb - st340015A - hda1 - 1.0 gb - Linux swap - swap hda2 - 36.2 gb - Linux native - / hde - 114.5 gb - maxtor - hde1 - 1.0 gb - Linux swap - hde2 - 113.5 gb - Linux native - hdg - 114.5 gb - maxtor - What should I be doing, format hde and hdg to 113.5 and 1.0 swap? Then Create Raid? What filesytem is recommended if I have a choice? I would prefer allowance for large files. I'd very much appreciate anyones guidance. Regards, Marc. _________________________________________________________________ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile