martin wrote: ... > go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) Let's take a look at my vdr system: /video> df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 xfs 147G 12G 136G 8% / udev tmpfs 253M 236K 252M 1% /dev /dev/hdb1 xfs 149G 86G 64G 58% /vdr2 /dev/hdc1 xfs 149G 115G 35G 77% /vdr3 /dev/hdd1 xfs 149G 114G 36G 77% /vdr4 athlon:/ nfs 148G 128G 21G 86% /athlon athlon:/mp3 nfs 233G 142G 92G 61% /athlon/mp3 athlon:/vdr5 nfs 233G 107G 127G 46% /athlon/vdr5 athlon:/vdr6 nfs 233G 141G 93G 61% /athlon/vdr6 athlon:/vdr7 nfs 233G 179G 55G 77% /athlon/vdr7 athlon:/vdr8 nfs 233G 170G 64G 73% /athlon/vdr8 athlon:/vdr9 nfs 233G 210G 24G 90% /athlon/vdr9 athlon:/vdr10 nfs 149G 75G 75G 50% /athlon/vdr10 athlon:/video nfs 233G 211G 22G 91% /athlon/video It would still be nice to integrate videos from other sources seamlessly. And: 20 disks are twice as much trouble as 10 disks. My older disks have started to fail recently... Carsten.