Well, I only have /boot, swap and / No /home. I guess I'm kind of screwed huh?
FWIW, I prefer to have seperate partitions for the following: / /boot swap /home /opt /usr /var Pretty much allows the most flexibility. You should be able to mount and write to your Windows partition so long as it's FAT16 or FAT32. NTFS partitions can only be read from, not written to as I understand it (no dual boot machines here). I'd use tar to create an archive file - something like: tar cf /mnt/windows-c/home.tar /home/userid ...assuming you've mounted your windows partition as /mnt/windows-c. You can filter this through bzip2 to compress it if you want: tar jcf /mnt/windows-c/home.tar.bz2 /home/userid I'm pretty sure this grabs all the hidden files in /home/userid as well. If not, I'm sure someone will correct me. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions