Am 02. Jun, 2006 schwätzte Mark Jarvis so: > Thanks! What tool did you use to diddle the existing partition setup? I have > a 512MB drive that I'd like to create a small 64MB ext3 partition on. I just use fdisk or something similar and mkfs. See Alan's post a few weeks ago about lifetime on consumer solid state devices. I've been running ext2 and ext3 on external devices for years. I even setup RAID on my most recenth USB thumb drive :). m$ will not be able to read the ext? partition. The USB drive is effectively just a hard drive, so you can make multiple partitions, etc. If you leave some room as fat$whatever, then m$ will be able to read that partition. Wonder if it's possible to put samba or something on a fat partition that can read the ext? partition. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ # "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are # better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use # of one's contributions to computer science." -- Donald E. Knuth