Mike Hicks wrote: > > I think VFAT has some bigger limitations on the characters that you can > put in filenames compared to other filesystems (but this may have > changed). I ran into that one. It looks like ext3 allows extended ASCII characters using the format \nnn, for example \231 for a 'c' with the squiggle below it. This doesn't fly in vfat. > The inability to control permissions bothers me > the most, though. I can't stand to have all those files marked executable > all the time... That and a few other things bothered me, I ended up bouncing the data to an ext3 partition then repartitioning and reformatting the drive for ext3. -David