At 02:55a -0700 01/16/2006, Chuck Pelto didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >Okay.... > >....how do I determine the size of the disk image I need to create? You can use 'du' to see the disk usage of your source folder. I would add some margin of safety to account for file system overhead (better safe than sorry). Use the -k option to get it in kilobytes. Uh, I don't recall if that's in 1000s or 1024s.