Hi; I am about to install Fedora 12 on my machine. The Fedora installer, Anaconda, keeps wanting to configure my hard drive(s) with RAID and particularly LVM. I have looked at the issue and understand what both RAID and LVM are. They seem like a PIA; an extra complication, I don't need on my small system. I have avoided using them in the past; but I am now wondering if I should just go ahead and let Anaconda do its thing. I have a small network of two machines in my home. They seldom interact. My personal machine has two hard drives sda, 40 GBs which contains WindowsXP including a 10 GB partition for my Linux backups; a second, sdb, 500 GBs, including a 10 GB partition for my Windows backups. They main disadvantage I see to LVM is that 'parted'/'gparted' can't re-partition LVM disks, and, RAID seems more suited to a much larger system and won't do much for two small disks. Is it worth worrying about, i.e. setting up, either both or either of RAID or LVM? As I said I have read the general bumph regarding the use of both, but has anyone with a small system similar to mine found any great advantage. -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1