On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 03:01 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote: > Oh, I see. Thanks all for replies. I guess I'll just take two 250GB > disks out of RAID5 and create a mirror out of them for system disk > which means we're going to lose ~250GB of starage capacity :/ This is what I always do for a server. RAID-5 is not a good volume for swap, /tmp or /var. I typically create a "system" RAID-1 (or RAID-10) volume, and then a "data" RAID-5 volume. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman