>>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. /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /Cdos vfat defaults,noatime,uid=500,noexec,umask=022 0 2 Ta da, noexec is your friend. Not so sure about devfs though...