Hey, I don't think this has come up, but things have changed since I was able to access the list. Maybe this too...? It's like this: I'm running slack 10.0 (no updates) on an old laptop with one usb port. I have three usb devices, & each mounts r+w just fine (although, temporarily, I'm mounting both my flash drive & digital camera via /dev/hd -- only flipping a # in front of the entry for each in /etc/fstab when I want to mount one or the other). I have no usb hub. While eventually, I wlll buy a hub, I'm disconnecting & connecting each one as needed without unmounting anything (why? Well, my /home & a vfat partitions -- which are in use when I do this -- are on an external 80Gb drive). Occasionally (not every time), either /home or /win (the vfat partition) or both will come up read only when I reconnect the drive to the port after finishing with either of the other usb devices. So, till I get work & buy a usb port, is there a way to either make "mount --bind drivea driveb" come up r+w, or something else, to make it happen? Meph -- To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe