Hello all, thanks for Scientific Linux, looks all very nice. ;-) I've seen reports that you hardlink e.g. *.i386.rpm packages, but from looking at the "5rolling" directories, you could also hardlink the identical *.noarch.rpm packages. Possible hardlink candidates can be seen with: /usr/sbin/hardlink -nvv /mirror/scientific/53rolling/ You might even run this command for older releases to save some bandwidth/harddisk space. regards, Florian La Roche P.S. Newest 5rolling/5.4rc looks good and is already running on some XenU guests. Nice to have all newest rpm packages directly included.