Webhostbudd: roger that, no problem. more servers left for me to play with... ;) =p i wouldn't mind doing a template install of a freebsd zfs box though even if i never used it although the directions are dead simple to follow Webhostbudd: i keep wanting to do that myself actually... what are the best directions now? i have an old link i think pretty simple http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23544 that is my favorite one oh wow, even optimized for 4K drives always now, if you just have a "regular" drive, not 4K optimized, will the 4K alignment have any negative effect, or will it just not matter? nope it just means that the smallest filesize will be in 4k increments so it could take up a little more space setting up the zfs volume is tedious, but could easily be scripted yeah up_the_irons: you're meant to align to 1mb now days up_the_irons: for partitioning. as some ssd's have bigger than 4k, and storage is a lot bigger than it was. oh that was ages ago :) mercutio: ah ok. so that is why i see ubuntu 10.04 and debian 6 root fs starting at 1MB instead of 32kB yeh that screwed up my scripts for a bit until i figured it out... ;) it's a pita if you delet a partition table and recreate but if you use the dos compatibility mode you can work around that yep, i learned that the hard way... ;) it took me at least an hour to figure it out i think after tryin cfdisk, sfdisk etc etc fortunately, parted, instead of fdisk, makes it pretty easy to work with that yeh parted wants to handle resizing on it's own etc though i think which reminds me i still haven't done anything with the extra space on my vps :) mercutio: parted can be used w/o its resizing feature; i don't use it. i prefer simply to modify the partition table manually and then run resize2fs holy Does anyone in here use pingdom on a arpnetworks site? Would be interesting to read/compare to my current provider