Here is an update for those who are interested. Didn't end up reinstalling, instead I toughed it out through the problems (and my own ignorance) and got things running again. So, good for me. I won't be touching that machine, but it will be stepping down as my central server (i.e. gateway/firewall). This thread opened my eyes to a more things, I went out and read a few more LDP HOWTOs, now I have a new goal. I have a new machine which will serve as my gateway/firewall plus a ton more. It's not quite all together yet--still need to pick up the hard drives. It's an Athalon XP 1600, 512 Mb RAM, that will have a two disk RAID 0 on IDE 1 and IDE 2 (no CDROM). This machine will be doing some serious work as I will be setting up SourceForge 2.5 on it and using it to host a few projects. So it will be running (of the top of my head): - Apache with mod_ssl/mod_php - PostgreSQL - Sendmail with Majordomo - SSH - CVS - FTP (not sure which daemon, any recommendations?) - Ipchains (masq/firewall) - Registered Users with shell accounts (SSH only, no telnet) There'll be about 3 projects, each will have a CVS/Database/2 Mailing Lists/Release Downloads/2+ developers On the other machine I setup, I kept running out of space on /var because of the stupid samba logs ( must have configured something wrong). Anyway, there will be no samba on this machine, but I understand that mailing lists and mail boxes take up quite a lot of space. I also seems like a good idea to put the CVS repositories in their own partition. I guess the websites could go in their own partition too, or maybe am I going overboard. What would be a good way to partition up my 80 gig RAID (two 40 gigs) so that everything runs optimally, has enough space and can be backed-up? -David