I want to thank you all for your comments and the knowledge I gained thereby.... Kenneth Burgener wrote: > On 5/31/2008 3:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> You can't expect it to maintain ext3 file permissions in a FAT32 >> partition :D > > > Not necessarily. If the Linux files do not need to be accessed from > the windows environment, you could create an image file, format the > image as ext3, mount the image file as a loop device, and treat it as > a standard ext3 mount point. Since this is only a movable copy of files from my /home/me directory structure, I can live with loosing the group and needing to reset it if moved back to a ext3 partition. I will just have to work out the right rsync of cp command to do the bulk movement without all those warnings. SHould only take reading a few man pages for that... Again thanks.