Pam Astor wrote: > OK when you say livecd, do you mean the Centos 5.1 distro > disks? I have a full set of them, a 7 disk set I got from Linux Central. > Can I just boot off disk 1 from my set? LiveCD as in the livecd: eg : http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/isos/i386/CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso > ...or, if I left the install the way it is now, are there any dis advantages of leaving the file > system the way it is - spread over two hard drives? nope, just that if you loose one drive, you loose everything ( potentially ) on the entire filesystem > Should just get another hard drive and back it up the way it is? > Would ther be any problems with my backup if left the way it is? Both those should be fine > > Or ahould I just do a complete re install of the OS after backing up my data... > > What do you reccomend -leave it as is, re configure it, or re install it? > I'd recommend you spend the time in learning about lvm and resize the filesystem down to one drive, LVM does take about 2 - 3 hours to work out, but once you do work it out - its fantastic and something that makes Linux really worthwhile :D but that is my personal opinion, you should still do whatever you feel like - it is, after all, a free world :D -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq