I run SUSE 9.2 and XP professional dual-boot on two machines. The Windows drives are NTFS compressed and fat 32 and the 9.2 drives are reseirsf 9.2 default). From time to time it would be convenient to have a read/write access to the Windows drives while in Linux and the Linux drives while in Windows. This is a nonissue on the fat 32 partition but the only solution I have found so far is to reformat reseirsf to ext3 and use commercial software software from paragon systems. Paragon offers a free trial of their software so the only cost is time. Before I do this a couple questions: 1.) Is ext3 better or worse (or just different) that reseirsf? 2.) Anyone have any experience with the paragon software on 9.2 and AMD64? 3.) Any other solutions I should look at? thanks Robert (Bob) L. Sandefur PE Senior Geostatistician / Reserve Analyst CAM 200 Union Suite G-13 Lakewood, Co 80228 rsandefur@cam-llc.com 303 472-3240 (cell) <-best choice 303 716-1617 ext 14