Thanks everyone one more thing, every time I do "shift+del" on this new EXT3 partition, it automatically creates a folder (.Trah-1000) and puts the deleted file in there!! I can't even delete this weired folder!! Why this peculiar behavior?? Emon -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug