I think that all my disks need to have the mkfs -t ext2 -j done to them. Do the disks need to be blank before such an operation is carried out? If I were to make the filesystem msdos on the floppy disks then I could use them with the rest of the world (M$), right? If that is so it is mkfs -t msdos, right (man & info doesn't have this info) or is it fat32? Never mind this last part here. I just found the command: it is mkfs.msdos or mkfs.vfat. So what is the difference between... never mind that either. Man pages indicate they are the same command. :)~MIKE~(: (what makes me think this is that when I go to my Linux partition it tells me nothing is in the directory) bmike1@bmike1:~$ cd /mnt bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls cdrom floppy hda1 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 sda5 sda6 bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount floppy mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab (it is in fstab) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount cdrom bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount cdrom mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab (it is in fstab) # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2 /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2 /dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /etc/fstab (END) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls cdrom bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls floppy bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda1 (msdos) My Documents bootlog.txt io.sys quickenw suhdlog.dat Program Files command.com msdos.--- recycled system.1st autoexec.bat config.sys msdos.sys scandisk.log temp bootlog.prv detlog.txt netlog.txt setuplog.txt windows bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda5 (linux) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda6 (didn't create this)(cat /proc/partitions shows this) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda7 (didn't create this) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda8 (didn't create this) bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5 downloads drakx-images lost+found bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5/d* sda5/downloads: sda5/drakx-images: 01-thanks.pl 07-desktop.pl 13-mdkcampus.pl 01-thanks.png 07-desktop.png 13-mdkcampus.png 02-community.pl 08-development.pl 14-mdkexpert.pl 02-community.png 08-development.png 14-mdkexpert.png 03-internet.pl 09-server.pl 15-mdkexpert-corporate.pl 03-internet.png 09-server.png 15-mdkexpert-corporate.png 04-multimedia.pl 10-mnf.pl 16-thanks.pl 04-multimedia.png 10-mnf.png 16-thanks.png 05-games.pl 11-mdkstore.pl 17-mdkclub.pl 05-games.png 11-mdkstore.png 17-mdkclub.png 06-mcc.pl 12-mdkstore.pl DEADJOE 06-mcc.png 12-mdkstore.png bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5/do* bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda6 (didn't create this) lost+found root@bmike1:/mnt# cat /proc/partitions; cat /etc/fstab; fdisk -l /dev/sda major minor #blocks name 8 0 1025500 sda 8 1 409584 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 5 511984 sda5 8 6 103408 sda6 3 0 29316672 hda 3 1 14659281 hda1 3 2 1 hda2 3 5 14651248 hda5 # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2 /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2 /dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 Disk /dev/sda: 1050 MB, 1050112000 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1001 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 400 409584 82 Linux swap (swap) /dev/sda2 401 1001 615424 5 Extended /dev/sda5 401 900 511984 83 Linux /dev/sda6 901 1001 103408 83 Linux