I have Redhat 6.0 sharing a disk with Win95 using Lilo. My Win95 became unstable (surprise) not because of linux. I wanted to delete the /windows/system directory on the vfat partition which I thought linux ought to be able to do. ls gave the munged files as ??????.??? while in Windows they looked like high-bit ascii. Any attempt to delete the contents caused a coredump, follewed by no prompt. I finally shut off the machine without proper shutdown. Linux rebooted fine and forced check on the file system, as it should. Attempting to do anything to the munged folder resulted in the same kind of crash. I finally copied all data files from the vfat partition into linux and reformatted the vfat partion to reinstall W95 clean. I can understand linux being unable to deal with filenames outside its character set, but I don't understand why this would cause such a severe reaction. Any gurus out there have a clue? Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a Associate Editor Electronic Products 20+ years without a car, a TV, or a website
