I have a full install of Slack 8 with some extra programs in the /usr directory. A df shows I have the following size file systems. /home is a 30 G drive. If you install KDE and Gnome they now use the /opt directory. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1793768 1479688 222960 87% / /dev/hde1 512012 378020 133992 74% /opt /dev/hde2 308432 107208 201224 35% /var /dev/hde3 237876 32848 205028 14% /tmp Joseph Key