Is FAT32 under SUSE 8.2 reliable with a 250GB partition? Is it likely more reliable with SUSE 9.2, or something in between? M$ claims FAT32 supports upto 8 TB under WinXP. === Background I have a large tar backup tape (~200GB) made from an ext2 filesystem. There are roughly 300 files, all 640MB each. (Sized to fit on a CD). I am trying to restore the tar backup to a newly formatted 250GB FAT32 partition. Looking at the tar output (saved to a log file), everything is working fine and my file sizes are correct. Doing a "ls" on the filesystem shows that a number of the files are 0 bytes long. Unfortunately, all 300 or so files comprise a single logical entity that I need to access from a Windows box. Linux cannot write to NTFS and none of Windows EXT2 drivers seem reliable enough to use for this. I guess my next attempt will be to get cygwin to read in the tape. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer