Actually, I think Windows is badly orginized. You just think it's good because you're used to it. It's actually rather bad, because every windows system is different depending on what devices are present. My windows install: c:\ - hard drive d:\ - MO Drive e:\ - First CD rom f:\ - second cd-rom Add a new hard drive, and you add a drive letter (Except in Windows 2000 where they actually figured out mount points, just too bad you can't have Program Files as a mount point.) Anyway, the *NIX way is better: / - root, everything starts here. |-/bin [*] |-/boot [*] - kernels and such |-/etc [*] - configuration files |-/lib [*] |-/root [*] - roots home directory |-/sbin [*] |-/home - User home directories. User data always goes here. |-/mnt - [**] Mount points, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/zip, /mnt/floppy |-/tmp - [***] Temp space |-/usr - Programs, libs, etc gets installed here |-/usr/local - Software/configurations/etc specific to your site, mostly things compiled from source, not installed via rpms/debs |-/var - Variable info, databases, package info, etc. |-/opt - Optional stuff, again, mostly stuff specific to your site. |-/dev [****] |-/proc [****] [*] - These directories should always be on the same partation as they are required to boot/maintail/restore the system [**] - Some system (Like Debian) like to create their mount points under / instead of mount. Some admins like them tucked away neatly under /mnt. A quick peek at /etc/fstab will tell you where to look if the admin hasn't created sym links. [***] - try tmpfs. It's cool. If using tmpfs, tmp space is kept in memory/swap. [****] - the dev and proc filesystems are created automatically by the kernel and MAKEDEV scripts. To me, that makes more sense than the Windows layout of different drive letters. When you sit down at a UNIX box, things are always in the same place, none of this on this computer D is the second hard drive and E is the cd-rom, over here M and N are the cd-rom and burner, C is the hard drive, and B is the Zip drive. On this machine C is the hard drive, D is the cdrom, and E is the Zip drive. Anyway, for the most part you shouldn't be to concerned with anything out of /home except for the cdrom/burner/zip/whatever mount points. Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055 They must not get baseball sized hail in Redmond. If they did MS would have realized HailStorm is a bad name for their new services.