Nick, Since 'vfat' is the most mature (of 'NTFS' and 'vfat' filesystems) on Linux, I would go with that. I think redhat might be 'telling' you that they can only make 2 gig vfat partitions, but that might not be true. I have a couple 10 gig partitions shared between Linux and Windows, but I keep the system stuff separated (w2k on ntfs (not mounted under linux), linux stuff on ext3 (not mounted under w2k), and shared stuff on vfat). If you want to easily write stuff to the vfat partitions as any user under Linux you will have to play with the mount options (man mount). Because of this, I would not make your '/home/' partition a vfat filesystem. If you have just one user and don't care that you have little in way of file permissions available, you might try it, but I think it would be bothersome. My 2 cents, good luck with them! Troy >>> AIRPLANEIT at aol.com 04/11/03 09:56AM >>> I'm curious to what extent all of you experts out there would go to in order to maximize "portability" between Linux and Windows platforms. Would you dare go as far as partitioning your /home partition to NTFS or vfat? (and Red Hat's telling me vfat's only good for 2 gigs, but I have a drive formated to 10 gigs?) Basically, I want to keep my MP3's and documents in a place that both Windows and Linux can access them. Also, if anyone out there is familiar with Flightgear Flight Stimulator, I would like to keep the base packages on a common drive, so I can run the Windows and Linux versions without having to keep separate sets of files (which are identical except for the binaries). I'm sure someone's managed to do this before, if not with Flightgear, then perhaps with Quake or something. Is it wise to even try? Is stability going to be an issue? -Nick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list