Hi, We've got an external USB HDD attached to our SuSE 9.3 box, and is being mounted by HAL (subfs). I have a couple of quick questions: Is it correct that the filesystem listed by "mount" for the drive in question is floppyfss? I.e. output from mount: /dev/sda1 on /media/disk type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) Last thing, given that normal users cannot umount the disk, is it okay to just unplug it - obviously they should wait until their files are transferred :) Are there any other safeguards one should recommend? Cheers, Jon. -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Research Assistant. PaIN Group, Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX tel: +44(0)1865-282654 fax: +44(0)1865-282656 web: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon