On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:13, Trevor Smith wrote: > However, FC1 insists the databases are read only, even though they > appear to have write privileges set. MySQL runs as the user "mysql". You're probably running as your own user on the system. You've probably set up the FAT32 partition to be read and writable by your user but not "mysql". The mysql user probably doesn't have write access to the partition. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Hedlund daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx CEO & Chief Consultant DigiTree Studios Pty Ltd.