On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:43:46 -0800 (PST) Meph wrote: > It's not that I really need that drive to be vfat, after all. > But I was thinking that it would be useful by moving it back & > forth between this & the Windows box if needed. As long I had Windows, I had a FAT partition, precisely for the purpose of accessing the same files from both OS's. It's the simplest and in my opinion the best solution. I'd keep it FAT if I were you, I'd stop worrying about permissions and save myself the trouble of migrating the files. Cheers -- Horror Vacui Registered Linux user #257714 Go get yourself... counted: http://counter.li.org/ - and keep following the GNU. To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe