When I embarked on my project to install 8.2 entirely from FTP, I set up my partitions as follows, adjusted from their prior arrangement: HDA1 -- a 2-gig Windows partition for my brother. HDA5 -- my 256-meg swap partition. HDA6 -- a 3-gig SuSE 8.1 partition, from which I was WGetting 8.2. HDA7 -- the 7-gig partition I was downloading into. Now that the system's all installed and I've switched my installation source over to FTP, I've gone ahead and gotten rid of the contents of HDA7 so I can store downloads in it. However, it occured to me that it'd be handy to make it a DOS partition so my brother can use it too. Unfortunately, if I partition it as a DOS partition, Windows can see HDA6 too and tries to Scandisk it, which I imagine would be a bad thing if I let it. So, I guess my question is: is it possible for me to make this partition a DOS partition without Windows doing bad things to SuSE? If not, is it possible to set it up in some other way so that both OSes can access it as storage space?