i've become aware of the fact that MS FAT 16 and FAT 32 file systems need some babysitting as far as the partiton sizes are concerned in order to get better performace. i was wondering if the same is true about ext2. i know that ext2 uses an inode table that is supposed to help it track files better and uses a better file system algorithm, but how big is too big? in other words how about a 14G HDD? i'm probably going to partition it anyway, but i was just wondering about performace loss and space loss (like cluster sizes) thanks, GT ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gigabyte Gary, Professional Student ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/gpsi/ The University of Texas at Austin (http://www.utexas.edu) Computer Sciences Major (http://www.cs.utexas.edu) Spanish and Business Minors --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]