first, take three drives create 500G boot partition, 5 gig swap, rest for data on each drive on *first* drive, make boot partition ext3, format, set as boot make swap partitions all swap do not touch data partition under /sde4, make it '/', do not format install linux. ---- [Linux | CategoryComputing.Linux] - [Fixme | CategoryFixme] - [Performance | CategoryComputing.Performance]