> the best write speed I can get is about 8MB/sec A while back I researched 4k sector drives since most new drives have them now. There is a problem with speed if you get the partition wrong. The answer seems to be to creating a partition with 1 meg of unpartitioned space preceding the first partition. This causes sector 2048 to be the first sector of the partition, and avoids the problem. Newer versions of gparted do this for you automatically when you use it to create a partition. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos