Hi, thanks for all the help I've received so far on this forum... now for another question.

On my RH8 box I would like to install a second hard drive, mirror my current hard drive so it's bootable, and then have a subdirectory where I'd backup (mirror) particular directories to.

Currently that HD has W2K on it.. I just want to blow that away and install/Mirror my hard drive. Is there an easy way to do this? I'd prefer not installing RH on the new drive... I just want to duplicate my current drive. Both drives are same make/model and size, I bought them within a week of each other.

Also, does Linux have some good hard drive checkers? I'd like to scan that drive and make sure it's good... the prior box it was on, the fan broke, which damanged the CPU and probably motherboard... but I'd like the verify the HD is okay.

Thanks.

mkfs will "just blow anything away" and make the file system of your choice there. Be careful, think twice before you say "y" to anything you'll regret.

badblocks is a good disk checker, I thing mkfs has an option to invoke badblocks in a readonly mode.

memtest86 is superb memory tester. (Yes, I know you didn't ask, but since everything from a disk goes into memory, you can't declare a disk faulty unless you're sure the memory is good!)

cp -a from root is very simple and does most what you want, but you can formally set up mirroring if you want to. There is a HOWTO on the subject.

Thanks for the info... and for the additional, too. I will probably be trying this out in the next week or so, geez, if only I didn't have to work.