Jacques B. wrote: > Ok, I was too general in order to keep it as simple as possible. > Correct that if you are copying 10 gigs onto 30 gigs that it will only > overwrite 10 gigs, not the entire 30 gigs. The remainder will be > unused space. You do not have to zero it first, but I agree it is > certainly a good practice. You may have to zero if there's a filesystem already there. I think it's always a good idea, and it can't hurt. Matt Flaschen