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. # create a 10M empty file dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1024 count=10000 # format with ext3 mkfs.ext3 disk.img # mount image mkdir /mnt/mydata mount -o loop disk.img /mnt/mydata # read / write files echo "hello world" > /mnt/mydata/hello.txt ll /mnt/mydata Kenneth