What is the full DF printout? Do you have a seperate partition for every dir? Mine basically looks like /dev/sda3 202226 74837 116947 40% / /dev/sda1 23302 4892 17207 23% /boot /dev/sdb1 8817104 1992280 6376928 24% /home /dev/sda7 2798808 41540 2615096 2% /opt /dev/sda5 2790864 871440 1777652 33% /usr /dev/sda6 2790864 85372 2563720 4% /var Course consider me different.. I bust everything down and back it all up. that way I can restore a file system easy if need be. If you don't have seperate file systems for /opt you can quickly end up with a lot of stuff in there. Basically picks up the 3rd party installs such as netscrap and things of that nature. Same with /var since you logs will eat into that if you generate several. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com