Done this a few to many times myself. :) Read the hard drive upgrade howto (or is it a mini howto) VERY helpful. I've always done: partition and format new drive, mount new drive root partition on /mnt/new-disk, then mount new drive user, var, etc under /mnt/new-disk/usr, /mnt/new-disk/var, etc... Then: cp -a /bin /boot /etc /home /lib /root /sbin /usr/ /var /mnt/new-disk The a will recuse and preserve atributes and links, so symlinks continue to symlinks. But definitly read that howto. Info you need to know! Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055 They must not get baseball sized hail in Redmond. If they did MS would have realized HailStorm is a bad name for their new services.