The other potential solution is for Bob to make one of the 500G disk that I bought the root disk, if he can repeat the trick to replace the disk like he did when he update the 20G to the 80G. I understand that will keep the current partitioning, but this is something we can live with until I build a completely new root disk in the autumn. The current /home par could become /var. The move of the files in /var into that partition should be done in the maintainance operation mode. If Bob is willing to do this fine. I am still moving the rasarchive to sahure, in order to be able to press on with other reorganization work on the files, to be able to start to use raneb as a backup machine. I am not happy with this continued bending over backwards orgy. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel