> Could you post the contents of your /etc/fstab file? That might show a > difference in how the two partitions are being mounted. this is my fstab: /dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/micha_c vfat uid=501,gid=501,defaults,rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/micha_d vfat uid=501,gid=501,defaults,rw 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 as you see it is identically ... that´s why i don´t have a clue what the problem could be. @Maynard: > It definitely does more than 32GB. You can't make the partition using > Windows IIRC because they want you to use NTFS instead. I had an 80BG > partition. Now its only about 50, but it FAT coz I need to read/write > under Linux. how did you format the harddisk? Michael Paffrath fatmedia - agentur für interaktive medien Schillerstraße 6 50968 Köln Tel. 0221 - 660 36 63 Fax. 0221 - 276 03 98 http://www.fatmedia.de/ eMail: paffrath@xxxxxxxxxxx