For those that are interested O"Reilly has posted a good intro to LVM which talks about how to use this to rearrange your disk into parts basically. Wish I knew all this before I set up my systems.... http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-wit... -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand