On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:57 -0700, Richard England wrote: > my issue is with a Seagate USB external drive and I need to maintain > it as VFAT for use with Windoze and Linux. Only if you want to, you don't have to. You can use EXT2 and EXT3 with Windows, if you want, there are Windows drivers to do so. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.