Thanks for all your tips and suggestions. Hats off to Karsten; your fstab suggestion seems to have done the trick 8)
-mw > rwxrwxrwx is normal if you mount a vfat partition: > it doesn't support I didn't mean literally rwxrwxrwx, of course, but some octal count or other > permissions anyway. Who is the owner? There should > be something like > > -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 322 Feb 25 15:43 toDo > -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 1557 Oct 15 19:09 > toGet > -rw-r--r-- 1 wwong root 424 Jan 17 21:09 > toLookUp > > permission user group there is -- forgot to mention owners in earlier post __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list