I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull. Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? After all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to Kmails composer. Nigel.