Thanks for everyone's comments. I now have a USB drive with a FAT and an ext3 partition on it. I created them in Linux, but Windows wouldn't recognize the FAT/vfat partition until I re-formatted it in Windows. Worked fine after that. One problem: I long ago learned how to diddle fstab so that any user could mount & write to a vfat USB, but I can't seem to do it for the ext3 partition. The mount process slams the mount point with root owner/group and 755 permissions. I can su - & chmod it to 777 and it's OK, but I don't think that I should have to do that. Any suggestions? FWIW, I'm running CentOS 4 (RHEL clone), updated within the last week. -mj- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss