I have had complete success partitioning my root+boot partition from my /home partition which helps a great deal in installing a new version and not selecting the update option and formatting just my root=boot partition and leaving /home partition to be over written with new settings. I have had a great deal of success in partitioning and extra space below /home as /home/data being a different physical drive. I have had complete sucess in combining the total space of more than one physical drive into one striped drive and mounting MD0 etc...... I have had complete success in encrypting a partition of /home/..... I have not yet been able to Mirror my Boot+Root partitions despite formatting with the correct format and creating a mirror RAID - Is there anything special in creating a RAID (mirror) of the boot+root partitions of a HDD. In the past I have kept the volume space identical on 2 different Physical drive to create a meaningful redundant boot+root partition that will be preserved if 1 physical drive fails that contains the boot+root partition. Yes I always configure ample swap space in all the above where multiples physical drives exist despite running 8 GIG of RAM. Is there something I have possible not done to correctly boot from a (RAID) Redundant boot+root drive on different physical media. I have not tried to RAID Redundant any /home/ or below mount point so I may have missed something. P.S Hate the new Partitioner in 11.1 - I saw nothing wrong with its form in 11.0, but like everything it needs to be like a dependency tree picture to keep everyone happy ;-) Scott