Thanks to everyone that answered, for all the replies to my questions about XFS. I've taken note of the points raised, and gone with ext3 for now (again). I do have a backup strategy in place, and you can use my PHP script from here, if you like it: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248436 Having made regular backups to the hard drive, I then as I feel is appropriate, make CD/DVD backups from the backup drive. I've lost hard drives and data in the past, so now I take precautions not to loose any data I need. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5