I like segmentation, and my file server at home has a number of partitions. It makes things easier to move around when you get a new drive (but not one so new that it dwarfs your previous space -- those make it easy). It makes upgrading the OS a lot less fearful, but it has caused one problem: an upgrade from ext2 to ext3 (for all 10 partitions) made my file server run a bit slower. It isn't horrible, but noticable. I am not concerned enough to thoroughly investigate, but from looking things over a bit it seems that a daemon (kjournald?) runs for each partition to guarantee the journal is up to date (I assume). Is there anything else that could take the punch out of a server (K6-2 233MHz/384MB SDRAM) in the upgrade form RH71 to RH72? Have a great day, Troy